Recent content by Abcat

My brother was slightly older than you Eric. I've just checked his potted life story and he was training as a locomotive fireman in June 1944 & went on to do his national service in Palestine. A lot of people didn't want to leave their homes and at that stage in the war, who can blame them

I don't know where they were billeted as yet Eric but will hopefully be able to find out. My sister who was old enough to remember sadly died last year & my brother died this year but neither ever mentioned Birmingham but I remember mention of Norfolk, so they may have got muddled. My brother &...

Thank you and yes it does, although I never heard my mother say anyone was 'grand', so I think there may have been a little poetic license in the reporting lol. I'd not heard of people being sent to Birmingham during the War only from it.My brother and the eldest of my two sisters had been sent...

Thank you so much for the article and for the prompt reply. Another brick in the family history.

I've just found out that my much older siblings were evacuated to Birmingham in August 1944 and that it was reported in the Birmingham Despatch on the 18th August. mentioning my mother Agnes Mary Fullick by name. Would you have access to that issue of the paper please? It was the first I had...