During the weekend of the 1st to the 4th September 1939, around one million children were evacuated from all of Britains major cities to the English countryside.
London (West Ham, East Ham, Willesden, Leyton, Ilford, Tottenham, Hornsey, Walthamstow, Acton), Essex, Middlesex, Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Portsmouth, Gosport, Southampton, Birmingham,...
The government expected the cities to be bombed, so evacuated children to keep them safe. There was a period known as 'the phoney war' because no bombs fell and many children returned to their...