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My mother was working with the Women’s Voluntary Service when the evacuees came out from London. She’d have a list of people who had volunteered to take evacuees, but there was also some billeting: ‘You’ve got 3 bedrooms, so 2 kids for you.’ But there weren’t just children.

A lot of these evacuees were people who had lost absolutely everything and because they were families, many of them didn’t go back at the end of the war, but made their lives here in Hadleigh.

Some of them from the big town were ‘fast talkers’ and as far as we kids were concerned, they were clever so-and-so’s and the only thing to do was to just thump them!

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