‘Wartime evacuation was an adventure’
Tuesday 1st September 2009, 11:00AM BST.
The three Ealey children from Liverpool in late 1939 or 1940, pictured in the garden behind the two shops in West Castle Street, Bridgnorth, where the young evacuees were taken in by shopkeepers Bill and Elsie Rogers and Mr and Mrs Gooderidge.
“We lived in Liverpool, near the docks, and I was the eldest child. I went to St Alphonsus Roman Catholic School, off the Stanley Road. On September 1 we assembled in school with our teachers and were marched to the railway station.
“The school got on a long train, en bloc, with 10 to a compartment.
“We were told we were being sent away into the country. I had never been to the country before. I had been to New Brighton – let’s face it, I was a Liverpudlian, very proud of the Pier Head and the docks.
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“It was an adventure. I was told by my mother in no uncertain terms that I was to hold on to Marie (her six-year-old sister) with one hand and John (brother, aged five) with the other, and we were not to be separated.
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Hi there, my mother was evacuated to Bridgnorth. I just wonder if you met each other. Her name was Mary Barker.
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