I was out yesterday in Atcham, Shropshire exploring churchyards, talking to the Church Warden about a Pub down the road called The Riverside Inn at Cound.
She said it used to be called the Lodge Inn, then in the war was tuned into a girls school for girls from Birmingham, after the war it was turned back into a pub. She went on to say a number of these schools were set up in the area in the same way.
This got me thinking; I know my mother was evacuated to South Wales during the war; she was billeted with a family on a farm. She would have been of school age, so what provisions were made to continue the evacuated children’s educational needs going.
A sudden input of large amounts of school children to a rural area would have overwhelmed the local schools, so were many of these temporary schools set up?
Does anyone have any memories they could share about school life as an evacuee?
She said it used to be called the Lodge Inn, then in the war was tuned into a girls school for girls from Birmingham, after the war it was turned back into a pub. She went on to say a number of these schools were set up in the area in the same way.
This got me thinking; I know my mother was evacuated to South Wales during the war; she was billeted with a family on a farm. She would have been of school age, so what provisions were made to continue the evacuated children’s educational needs going.
A sudden input of large amounts of school children to a rural area would have overwhelmed the local schools, so were many of these temporary schools set up?
Does anyone have any memories they could share about school life as an evacuee?
