大象传媒

I lived in Portsmouth at the outstart of WW2 and was 5 years old at that time. Together with my 2 elder sisters I was evacuated at first to Salisbury in Wiltshire where we were at a large house in the town. During the next 5 years I was shifted around at intervals to 2 private homes and to 2 hostels, Conigre House at Bradford on Avon and Dial House which I think was near Devizes. I was happier at the hostels, as at the private houses I was not given the affection, that as a very young child, I needed. The Hostels, although pretty austere, we at least had 20 to 30 fellow evacuees to bond with. I saw my mother once during the 5 years I was evacuated, and my father not at all. I feel that I missed out a normal family life, but its only in the last 10 years or so that I really feel really bad about it, as my elder siblings are dead or dying and I think about what we may have missed together.

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