Old Brummy
master brummie
Hello all Just up a bit earlier and having gone around the usual Compter rounds etc have found time to browse thru the BHF. I was evacuated onFriday the 1st of September. I was 12 years old at the time and do remember some parts of it very well. We assembled at the school and had name tags attached etc and we wallked to the old GWR station at Hockley. Walked up the stairway to the platform Got on atrain as told and finished up at Abergavenny.
The staion there is a bit out of the town so we marched in a little convoy with name tags and the Gas Masks in the cardboard box with the string attacked etc ,down to the Main Street in the town. Passing by a greengrocers shop and helping ourselves to a little fruit we arrived at the Market Hall,
It was getting a little late in the afternoon and food was being handed out like mad and we were all sorted out into small groups to be carted off to our new foster homes.
The organisation I suppose was quite good when there had been no dress rehearsal at all for the big event . I was eventually whisked away in a motor carwith 2 other boys around the same age to a Village called Llanvihangel Crucorney which was about 5 miles along the road towards Hereford.
As I sit here writing this I wonder if anyone else reading this was on that same train.. I will write some more later so cheers for now Old Brummy
The staion there is a bit out of the town so we marched in a little convoy with name tags and the Gas Masks in the cardboard box with the string attacked etc ,down to the Main Street in the town. Passing by a greengrocers shop and helping ourselves to a little fruit we arrived at the Market Hall,
It was getting a little late in the afternoon and food was being handed out like mad and we were all sorted out into small groups to be carted off to our new foster homes.
The organisation I suppose was quite good when there had been no dress rehearsal at all for the big event . I was eventually whisked away in a motor carwith 2 other boys around the same age to a Village called Llanvihangel Crucorney which was about 5 miles along the road towards Hereford.
As I sit here writing this I wonder if anyone else reading this was on that same train.. I will write some more later so cheers for now Old Brummy