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This story was submitted during the Glenn Miller Festival 2004. The author agrees to it’s inclusion on the website.

I was evacuated in September 1939 to Wellington from Mile end Road in the East End of London. I can remember assembling on a small hill at the back of the Guardian Angels School on the Mile End Road. We were to go on a journey, myself and my two elder sisters Rosie and Violet. I can remember I had a label attached to my lapel with my name and destination. I was given a ½ Lb bar of chocolate and a packet of HP Biscuits. After a long train journey we arrived at Wellington. On the Athletic field we were split up and I went to a lovely family, the Tuckers, who already had three sons.

We were evacuated as a school, and were taught by nuns in a disused church. After the war when it was time to go back to London, I refused, and was transferred instead to the local comprehensive. I stayed with the Tuckers until I went to do national service.

I can honestly say that I would have had a totally different life if I had grown up in London.

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