Letters from families hosting evacuated children in Pendeen "I wish you all the best & trust that you will be safe & may the war end soon so that you may all be reunited" Sent from: Pendeen, Cornwall
Evacuee Joe to his mother "We have creem and pastry every day and we live on creems and pastry" Sent from: Pendeen, Cornwall
Evacuee Nellie to her mother "We are having a nice time here now, we go to the beach nearly everyday." Sent from: Pendeen, Cornwall
Evacuee Renee Holt to her parents Lilian and Sidney "We are happy and dear mum we have got a big orchard" Sent from: Mere, Somerset
Walter Smith to his son Michael "On his birthday, while evacuated to Scotland during the second great European War (6th year) from London who is being attacked with flying or stratospheric rocket bombs" Sent from: London Date of letter: 18 December 1944
Evacuee Edith Hall to her mother Maud "Dear Mummy and Daddy. We was sorry that you had the air raid buzzer and had to go to the shelter." Sent from: Hereford
Catherine Crawley to her evacuated daughter Jean "I am so glad you could come to the station to see us off, I saw you waving on the embankment for a long time, I wanted to get out and join you there, so much." Sent from: Herne Hill, London
Barry Schumm to his parents Fred and Hilda "I hope you have made preparations for Air-Raids & Black Outs and I hope you are not frightened" Sent from: Howick near Preston, Lancashire Date of letter: 3 September 1939
Evacuee Frank to his mother "I would like you to send some more stamps and try and send the bikes down" Sent from: Pendeen, Cornwall
A woman whose children were sent to my great grandmother during the war "I expect it is almost as hard for you to have strange children put on to you as it is for them having to leave us" Sent from: Walton on the Naze? Date of letter: 8 September 1939
Mrs Doreen Doe’s VE day and evacuation recollections "We left London in 1939 and we never went back to London again, not that we had a home to go back to: it had been bombed to the ground." Sent from: East London
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