Genealogy Chat

if anyone was evacuated to bethesda/bangor area.I'm willing to help with finding photos,addresses etc

My mother, who was pregnant with my sister and I were evacuated to Manor Farm, Tarring Neville, between Lewes and Newhaven, on 6 Sept 1939, three days after war was declared. I was aged about 18 months. My aunt and her two children also went there at the same time. My cousin has recently found her mum's billeting ticket, which showed the rent as 11/- per week. My sister has recently found a letter dated 1941, from my Dad's sister who died of cancer that same year. In it she says that my grandfather wanted my grandmother to go to relatives in Oxford to escape the bombing, but she refused to leave London. (Bermondsey.) They were eventually bombed out rhe end of the war by a V1 or V2, not sure which. My grandmother always refused to leave the flats for the shelter, but on that evening she did, and survived.

Benjamin My Great Grandmother was in Camden and she was in her 70's. she didn't get officially evacuated but did eventually move out to the middlesex area.

Dizzy, The evacuees and local children were not deliberately segregated at school: it was simply the effect of having to accommodate the children from two schools (and their teachers) in one. So both sets of children went on half-time and for perfectly understandable reasons they stayed in their classes with the teachers they were familar with. By the way, Deb, there is plenty of material on this subject but it does come in book form. Peter