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Bootle to Herefordshire evacuation
My mother was evacuated from Bootle to Herefordshire, having previously been billetted in Southport.
Her school, Bootle High School for Girls took over a house called Hergest Croft in Kington. Her experience of moving from a city to the coutryside and the beautiful gardens and grounds of Hergest inspired her love of gardening and life-long interest in plants. We have photographs of The Rhodedendron Wood and Daffodil Walk at Hergest Croft, and of the girls in her dormitory complete with home made face masks (mud packs !). My mother told me stories when I was young of how she met my father after the local ATC invited the High School girls to social events to welcome them to their new community. My father was posted with the army to India, and left by ship from
Liverpool, where until then he had never been before. My parents were married in Liverpool 1949, after my father's return to England, and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary during 1999 in Gloucestershire where they now live.

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