Description
Object description
Illustrated ts account (53pp, written in 1992) giving interesting but brief details of her childhood, education, and her early career as a primary school teacher in Church Road School, Stoke Newington, London between the wars, but principally describing her life during the Second World War, with useful accounts of her work as a teacher organising and accompanying a group of children being evacuated to Peters Green near Luton (September - December 1939) and another party evacuated to Melksham, Wiltshire (June - September 1940), giving details of the difficulties of arranging accommodation and the (generally happy) experiences of the children, parents and 'foster parents', and also describing her service with a rest centre and as a teacher in East London and at Church Road school, particularly during the Blitz and the V-weapon raids, and spending a holiday working on the land; also: 2 photocopied and 5 original ms letters written by foster and real parents about the evacuees (September 1939 - January 1940), two tags and labels worn by her during the evacuation process, a blank post card to be sent by the teacher to the evacuee's parents giving the child's address, a London Transport special ticket to Enfield, LCC information booklet 'The Government's Evacuation Scheme' (March 1940), and a printed scroll from King George VI issued to children in June 1946; photocopies of papers relating to her brother, Stanley, a corporal with the RASC, including two airgraph letters (September and December 1943), a telegram (September 1944), a letter (23 May 1945) complaining about cuts in civilian rations while servicemen live so well, and a scroll commemorating the liberation of Norway in May 1945.
Content description
Illustrated ts account (53pp, written in 1992) giving interesting but brief details of her childhood, education, and her early career as a primary school teacher in Church Road School, Stoke Newington, London between the wars, but principally describing her life during the Second World War, with useful accounts of her work as a teacher organising and accompanying a group of children being evacuated to Peters Green near Luton (September - December 1939) and another party evacuated to Melksham, Wiltshire (June - September 1940), giving details of the difficulties of arranging accommodation and the (generally happy) experiences of the children, parents and 'foster parents', and also describing her service with a rest centre and as a teacher in East London and at Church Road school, particularly during the Blitz and the V-weapon raids, and spending a holiday working on the land; also: 2 photocopied and 5 original ms letters written by foster and real parents about the evacuees (September 1939 - January 1940), two tags and labels worn by her during the evacuation process, a blank post card to be sent by the teacher to the evacuee's parents giving the child's address, a London Transport special ticket to Enfield, LCC information booklet 'The Government's Evacuation Scheme' (March 1940), and a printed scroll from King George VI issued to children in June 1946; photocopies of papers relating to her brother, Stanley, a corporal with the RASC, including two airgraph letters (September and December 1943), a telegram (September 1944), a letter (23 May 1945) complaining about cuts in civilian rations while servicemen live so well, and a scroll commemorating the liberation of Norway in May 1945.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1993-02