Evacuees...what do we know? by Uned 56 https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2017-11-07 19:12:59 UTC 2017-11-23 10:25:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Arrival https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205192580 Walk miles to the village hall.
On arrival the billeting officer took the children to the nearest  central clearing point.
If not picked they would stay with a teacher, police man or a billeting officer.
Register as soon as they got there.
People that would have been traveling with them would have been schoolchildren, teachers ,expectant mothers, elderly and invalids.
When they got there they weren't even told where they were which caused a lot of confusion for the children.]]> 2017-11-09 10:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205192580 Where they stayed https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205194324 The types of homes they stayed in were cottages, farm houses, small family houses and if they were lucky mansions.
Small schools or classes would sometimes stay in mansions or big country homes.
Sometimes if there fosters we're not happy with their choice of children they would take them back to the billingting office.
If families in the city had friends or family who lived in the countryside they would live with them until the end of the war.

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They were told to bring a gas mask, food for 24 hours, warm clothing, night clothes, clean underwear, plimsolls a toothbrush soap and a towel a hairbrush and a warm coat.

]]> 2017-11-09 10:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205196232 Arrangements for transport https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205201298 Many went on trains, buses and occasionally boats.
Some went overseas to countries like Canada, USA, and Australia.
Sometimes boats with evacuees on sank on the way.
Children in London were evacuated by the underground to a big nearby train or bus station and we're then evacuated to the countryside. ]]> 2017-11-09 10:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205201298 What was life like https://padlet.com/yggctn_itco/m5w9u6uu8eud/wish/205629110 No television but on the radio there was Children's hour between 5 & 6 pm.
Some children picked up the language but others struggled to understand what was said to them.
Some children had to follow the religion of their foster family and go to church or chapel every Sunday.
If the children were Jewish and had to eat certain foods,diet was a problem when they were evacuated.
They were given strange meal combinations.


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