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We lived in Enfield, 10 miles north of London. As the Battle of Britain started, we went, with my mother, to stay in Minehead. An Aunt and Uncle were relocated there as my Uncle was a teacher at a school in Westminster and the whole school were evacuated there. We stayed in a house with a family of four - two parents and a boy of 4 and a baby just a year old. We lived with the family for about 18 months. I suppose I was too young to realise the full implication for us going there, but I had a lovely time. My father was a fireman, so obviously he could not come with us. We went to school and I made a good friend who was also evacuated and whose home was in Wandsworth. Eventually we came home. Later the flying bombs came over our house. So another aunt and uncle who had been relocated to Blackpool, asked Michael and I to go there. We went with a neighbour whose grown-up daughter lived in Blackpool. We were there for 11 weeks, during which time Victory in Japan was celebrated. We went to school there for a few weeks and were invited to a special concert for evacuees. Because my cousin was not an evacuee she was not allowed to come with us,which made me quite sad!

On the whole we had it pretty easy during the war, as we were not separated from our families. I cannot begin to imagine what harm was done to those very little 3 and four year old children who were seperated from their families, especially now that I have young grand children! Let's hope that time like those never come again. But I suppose it has in Asia, and what was Yougoslavia!God Bless all the little children who suffer as a result of wars.

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