In the 1940s children were evacuated from east London to Hatfield Herts. This lay between the main railway line to the north and the De Havilland aircraft factory!!!!!!!!!!! Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "DavidTennant" <d_jtennant@sympatico.ca> To: "Dave Hamilton" <gradhuk39@btinternet.com>; <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [NFK] evacuations > During WW2, I lived in Belton some 3 miles inland from Gt Yarmouth. > Children from Gt Y were evacuated to Retford. Belton received evacuees > from Dagenham, early in the war, and from West Ham during the V1 > offensive. Did the authorities select such a system to prevent early and > easy return to the danger areas? > David > > On 5/18/2016 4:09 AM, Dave Hamilton via wrote: >> Hello, >> The idea of the evacuations was to protect the future generations. >> It was not compulsory. >> My mother & I were evacuated to Staplehurst in Kent in 1940. >> We were moved again when a few doodlebugs came down around the house. >> The last one took of part of the roof, blew in all the front windows and >> the front door. >> Finally getting back to London in early 1946. >> However a woman with her children who were placed in the same >> house as us returned to London after about a year. >> bye >> DaveH >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > >