When I was 13 years old, the Second World War began and I was evacuated. From Birmingham St Andrews, I was sent to Stratford upon Avon on Friday – two ...
Continuing Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1
‘My move to Princethorpe village school was arranged by Mrs Reeve of the Poplars Farm, Eathorpe. She was an exceptional lady who was very ...
To continue Julie’s memoirs (extracts from Warwickshire County Record Office CR 3913/1): her family moved to Eathorpe to escape the Coventry blitz. ‘It was only when we went to Eathorpe ...
As part of the Shrubland Street School Collection1, there are a number of memoranda that were issued by the Board of Education during the Second World War. Education and ensuring ...
During the Second World War a civil servant working at the castle came and told us we had to have someone staying with us, he was doing war work. My ...
I originally grew up in Uxbridge Avenue, Willesden before being evacuated to Brinklow in Warwickshire when I was 7. I was born in 1932 and lived in a two-up and ...