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- Tags: evacuation
Interview with Efrem Colombi
Evacuplets
Tags: arts and crafts; evacuation; home front
More Evacs
Tags: arts and crafts; evacuation; home front
Assorted Evacs
Tags: arts and crafts; evacuation; home front
Catalogue of Evacs
Tags: arts and crafts; evacuation; home front
Evacuation preparation
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
West Bromwich evacuation
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: evacuation; home front
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment
Interview with Dr Marjorie Birch
Letter from the headmaster
Tags: childhood in wartime; evacuation
Interview with Margaret Hodgin
Margaret was about eleven when…
Interview with Jim Wright. Two
Interview with Ruta Popika
Interview with Gavino Pala
Interview with Celsa Agosto
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; fear; home front
Interview with Giovanni Oderda
Tags: bombing; evacuation; home front; Resistance
Interview with Speranza Piras
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; faith; home front; superstition
Interview with Giovanni Delfino
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; fear; home front; Resistance; shelter; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Adriana Ventriglia
Interview with Marialuigia Buffadossi
The Evacuee
The first to Isleham and he was accompanied by his maternal grandparents and Alan from next door. There was no electricity, water or sewerage in the farmhouse. Gas was installed but never used. Lighting was by paraffin…
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; childhood in wartime; evacuation; faith; home front; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
The Air Ministry regrets
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