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#837 Evelyn Before war broke out

Evelyn

I was evacuated from Leeds in September 1939 just before war broke out. My parents came to visit me on their motorbike. We knitted squares to make blankets…

We only went to school half days because we had to share the village school. My original school in Leeds was taken over by the army (Blenheim).