The culture shock of a different language and rural farming area would have been extreme. i know one of mother's friends son suffered all his life as a result. We were 5 when war broke out. His faather had lost a leg in the First World war. Audrey -- > From: Marged <marged36@btopenworld.com> > Reply-To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:17:16 +0100 > To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Visiting St Patrick's SOUTHPORT > > Audrey, the children were VERY interested in the evacuation - just couldn't > imagine how they would feel if it had happened to them! > > Marj > > > It shows you were a hit!!!! > > Audrey NZ > I was voluntarily evacuated to Southport with my mother in WW2, the school > Waterloo Primary was evacuated to Wales. > -- > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >