Lost Touch: March 08
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Janet Townend and her brother Malcolm were evacuated to Alderbury near Salisbury. She attended school at Harnham for three and a half years and would like to hear from anyone who remembers her and Malcolm.
March2008
Ron Walker was evacuated in 1939 from Medway Cottage Homes to Whitstable in Kent, then from London to Brixham in Devon. Finally to Brentwood in Essex. “I would love to hear from anyone who was at the same venues”
March2008
Trying to trace Gwynne Blandford (as she was then) evacuated to West Buckland, Somerset in 1939 from Chelmsford. If anyone knows of her whereabouts please contact Kenneth Skeggs. Tel: 01823 442427
March2008
Dorothy Eyres nee Wood, at the age of four, was evacuated from Portsmouth to Kingsclere, where she was separated from her brothers. She would love to hear from anyone who was evacuated to Kingsclere.
March2008
Michael W. Parkin would like to hear from anyone who was evacuated from St. Saviour’s School, Markhouse Road, Walthamstowe E17 to Llanhatom, Glamorgan .
March2008
Joan Hope nee Johnstone writes:
“Is there anyone who was evacuated from Thornhill School Islington, to Market Harborough in September 1939? I was aged 6. No one knew where we were going and I had a new knapsack with a change of clothes and some sweets, my gas mask and my label. My mum walked beside me from school to the station taking the weight of the knapsack off my back. I was billeted with a middle-aged, childless couple whose parents had a small holding and I was taught to milk the goats. There was a Symington’s Soup factory nearby. I thought it was a lovely smell. I got earache and because the couple didn’t know how to cope my mother came and took me home. I watched the blitz and dog-fights, played on the Anderson shelter.Then I was sent to Mile End, near Norwich. I was on my own this time and very unhappy at first. After about eighteen months my mother collected me. Then my dad’s workshop was bombed and we moved out to Colindale, right near Hendon Aerodrome. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers any of the above.”
March2008