Tag: Second World War

  • Evacuees reunion

    Dorothy Hagarty shares a photo of a reunion between her family and wartime evacuees who stayed with them on George Street. This is a photo taken at the back of my grandmother’s home at 30 George Street in Brandon.  I am the one back row right.  Next to me is my ‘aunt’ Connie, who was…

  • The evacuee boarding above the ironmonger shop …

    An idyllic childhood Peter Woods recalls his time as an evacuee, staying in a flat above Woodrow’s ironmonger, overlooking Market Hill, in the 1940s … “Our ‘front room’ looked out onto the market square and in one corner of this room stood a Morrison shelter.  This had a flat top with a cage like construction underneath.  When the…