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Evacuation Papers

Ray Barrett

Ray Barrett

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN R.I.P.
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Thank you Ray for sharing those with us. I am afraid I was not born till after the war but can only imagine what it must have been like at that time. Jean.
 
Thanks for showing these papers Ray.
I've only seen the cards on children on old photos.
Good to see them up close. Well done for saving them:)
 
Really Jean,being a little lad it didn't mean much to me,we used to go to our air raid shelter under a house in Victoria Rd.(it's still there),and do what little boy's do when they are bored,have arguments and fight.
I always think it was the young mom's who had it the hardest,husbands away,and them being bombed at night and working in factories during the day.
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Thanks Ray my Mother was the same and it wasn't till later that I thought exactly the same about my Mom and now wish I'd spoken about it more with my her when she was here.
I have to admit I mentioned it to my partner a couple of times when we have had a tiff:)
 
Thanks for posting those Ray. I have never seen any Evacuation Papers before, so it was really interesting. My Dad used to manage the Clifton Cinema in Gt. Barr when I was a baby and we used to live opposite. When there was a raid on my Mom used to take me to the cinema cellars, along with many other local people, to shelter. After a while she got fed up with doing it and decided to stay at home and we would take our chances!

My mother-in-law was pregnant with my husband at the beginning of the war, and they lived in the East End of London, so she was evacuated to Bexhill in Sussex to give birth in a convalescent home there.

Judy
 
Ray, Thank you for posting the evacuation papers. My husband will have a look at them when he comes in from planting his beans this morning! He has often told me about his four years in Wales and the happy time spent there. He was one of the lucky ones.
Anthea:)
 
Thank you for posting these for us to see. My mother was evacuated from Ladywood to a farm in Hereford in her early teens. At the time she was living with her brother and his wife as her mother died when she was 2 and her father when she was 8. She had a wonderful time in Hereford and the elderly couple who owned the farm became her "mum and dad". They wanted to adopt her but she returned to Ladywood (reluctantly) because her sister-in-law wanted help with her new baby. My mother kept in touch with the couple and took me to visit them them many times in the 60's/70's. The war was a sad and frightening time and yet evacuation provided my mother with many happy days and a "mum and dad".
I still have the little brown suitcase that she took with her name and address written inside (Icknield Square)
Polly
 
pollypops,
It's nice to know your mom's evacuation had an happy ending.However,what horrified me,was, on reaching the age of 14 youngsters were returned to Brum to work in factories.
It pleases me that these papers were interesting,but it is down to my dad,he never threw anything away.
 
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