Description
Object description
Wp account (11pp) of her evacuation as a young girl from her home near Clapham, south London to Bognor Regis, Sussex (September - December 1939) and to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire (October 1940 - December 1941), dwelling in particular on the difficulties of education and her lack of schooling during the war years, and including comments on rationing, the air raids she experienced during her periods at home in London (early 1940, 1942 - 1944), the people upon whom she was billeted, and the lack of adequate care found in her first billets; together with a picture postcard to her from her mother (October 1939) reminding her to "be a good girl, dear, and do what you are told", an undated ms letter (2pp, written on the reverse of printed Emergency Powers Fire Precautions forms relating to the Clearance of Lofts Order, 1940) written to her mother concerning her schoolwork, and her school report of March 1945, while attending Balham Central School for Girls, south London.
Content description
Wp account (11pp) of her evacuation as a young girl from her home near Clapham, south London to Bognor Regis, Sussex (September - December 1939) and to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire (October 1940 - December 1941), dwelling in particular on the difficulties of education and her lack of schooling during the war years, and including comments on rationing, the air raids she experienced during her periods at home in London (early 1940, 1942 - 1944), the people upon whom she was billeted, and the lack of adequate care found in her first billets; together with a picture postcard to her from her mother (October 1939) reminding her to "be a good girl, dear, and do what you are told", an undated ms letter (2pp, written on the reverse of printed Emergency Powers Fire Precautions forms relating to the Clearance of Lofts Order, 1940) written to her mother concerning her schoolwork, and her school report of March 1945, while attending Balham Central School for Girls, south London.
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1996-04-19