- Contributed byÌý
- championSacredHeart
- People in story:Ìý
- Alan Phillips
- Location of story:Ìý
- Middlesbrough and Bridlington
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4373804
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 06 July 2005
Alan Phillips
When the war started in 1939, Alan was seven years old. He lived in Middlesbrough. He was evacuated in 1939 to Bridlington. He was then put in a hotel with other children and no adults look after them. They ruled themselves. He didn’t go to school because he didn’t have to. They ran riot for a while and when his parents came to visit him and his sister they saw the mess they were in and didn’t let them back again.
His school was strict and he didn’t like it there. Alan had two brothers and a sister.
The wireless and the pictures were the only form of entertainment, and he could only afford to go once a month. Overall, Alan didn’t mind the war all together. It probably didn’t affect him very much.
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