Private Papers of Mrs T M Mooney

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Content description

Wp account (59pp, written in 1989) of her evacuation as a young girl with her family from their home in Kensington, west London to St Bees, Cumbria (c.1940 - 1945) with comments on the importance of the railway station to the small village, the kind reception shown to the evacuee families, their billets on a farm, and happy memories of life as an evacuee.

History note

Catalogue date 1996-08-14

History note

Cataloguer PJG

Object details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Mooney, T M
Dimensions: File: Weight 6.7 kg
Catalogue number: Documents.5591

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