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About 4 years later V1s (flying bombs - doodle bugs) and later V2s (rocket bombs) began to fall on London and still at school, and still in the scouts, we went again to Dane Road Station to pick up some more evacuees. ... In the meantime many of the original evacuees had returned to their homes in London.
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I was one of seven children and mum and dad insisted we would not be split up. We returned to London, where dad worked in the East India Docks. Mum immediately began making sandbags, sewing the material together using her treadle sewing machine.
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London evacuees made a considerable impact on the reception areas and the subject was widely discussed at the time. The arrival of large numbers of mothers and children from inner city areas brought inevitable problems of adjustment for both sides.
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www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/War/londonEvac.html
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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTIO ... Image: LONDON EVACUEES TO DEVON AND CORNWALL, ENGLAND, 1941; ... IWM London...
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The village school at Stanton St John was overwhelmed when evacuees arrived from London early in the Second World War. ... Mrs Weatherby, from Stanton House, had visited every house in the village to decide how many evacuees each could take.
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Most of the people forced to leave their properties when a fire involving a gas cylinder broke out return home. ... Most of the 150 people who were forced to leave their homes when a gas cylinder caught fire in south-west London have been allowed to return.
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Prince William meets patients and staff who were evacuated from the Royal Marsden Hospital during a fire. ... About 180 patients and 800 staff were evacuated from the west London hospital on Wednesday after the fire took hold in its upper floors and roof.
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