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This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clark on behalf of Kenneth H. Rickard. It is an extract from a book he wrote in 2004 called 'St Dennis and Goss Moor', published by Halsgrove in Tiverton. They fully understand the site's terms and conditions.

To protect the children of our large cities from the German blitz, they were evacuated to rural areas in 1940-41. Cornwall received its share of evacuees with the majority coming from London and Bristol. It was sad to see these children arriving by train with their gas-mask boxes around their necks and a small bundle of possessions and being mustered in village halls before being designated to local families.
These were difficult times and the new environment presented a completely different lifestyle to what they were used to - there was no running water, no flushing toilets and no electricity. They had to adapt to country food and a new lifestyle. Nevertheless, most eventually adapted to the situation and stayed until the end of the war when they were able to return to their parents. However, some had no homes or families to return to, some went home and returned to the locality in later years and quite a few stayed in Cornwall and eventually married local partners.

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