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Radio Lincolnshire,09 Jul 2025,7 mins

An evacuee’s wartime childhood in Lincolnshire

Secret Lincolnshire

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A touching tale of an evacuees wartime childhood in Lincolnshire, a story that was nearly lost. Valerie was 88 when her son Miles had to make a decision to put her into a care home and sell her house. He found a transcript of what he later understood to be a memoir of her childhood growing up in London and being evacuated to Lincolnshire during WW2. Miles says that “Finding the manuscript was rather like opening up a time capsule to the past.” Presented and Produced by: Patrycja Boryka

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