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Ts memoir (44pp with a 2pp revised section on D-day) titled 'Treacle's Tales', covering her experiences on the Home Front during the Second World War, describing her evacuation with her aunt to Baynards Park near Cranleigh, Surrey, the scenes witnessed at Guildford station as wounded troops returned from Dunkirk, her evacuation with her school to Wiltshire, the journey there charged with looking after a young Jewish refugee, her fortunate billeting with a kind lady and details of her happy evacuation - mentioning school, knitting and other leisure activities, coping with the shortage of elastic, observing the Westbury horse being camouflaged, and recalling the behaviour of black American servicemen who were setting up a camp nearby and the racial tension amongst the American troops. She returned to London in late 1942 (on reaching the age of 14) to start work in an office, describing how the news of D-day was received by her colleagues, giving details of her family home in Clapham, London, being hit by a V1 on 1 July 1944, the difficulty of starting again under wartime conditions and her mother's struggle to get replacement ration books, VE Day celebrations, shortages after the war, the official 'street lighting' ceremony in Piccadilly, her post-war holiday to Butlins in Skegness, the death of King George VI, and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Together with two original postcards written home to her parents while evacuated to Wiltshire, her evacuee label, and documents relating to their war damage claim, including a detailed ms inventory (4pp) of damaged furniture and other items in the house for the purposes of the War Damage Act Private Chattels Scheme.
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Ts memoir (44pp with a 2pp revised section on D-day) titled 'Treacle's Tales', covering her experiences on the Home Front during the Second World War, describing her evacuation with her aunt to Baynards Park near Cranleigh, Surrey, the scenes witnessed at Guildford station as wounded troops returned from Dunkirk, her evacuation with her school to Wiltshire, the journey there charged with looking after a young Jewish refugee, her fortunate billeting with a kind lady and details of her happy evacuation - mentioning school, knitting and other leisure activities, coping with the shortage of elastic, observing the Westbury horse being camouflaged, and recalling the behaviour of black American servicemen who were setting up a camp nearby and the racial tension amongst the American troops. She returned to London in late 1942 (on reaching the age of 14) to start work in an office, describing how the news of D-day was received by her colleagues, giving details of her family home in Clapham, London, being hit by a V1 on 1 July 1944, the difficulty of starting again under wartime conditions and her mother's struggle to get replacement ration books, VE Day celebrations, shortages after the war, the official 'street lighting' ceremony in Piccadilly, her post-war holiday to Butlins in Skegness, the death of King George VI, and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Together with two original postcards written home to her parents while evacuated to Wiltshire, her evacuee label, and documents relating to their war damage claim, including a detailed ms inventory (4pp) of damaged furniture and other items in the house for the purposes of the War Damage Act Private Chattels Scheme.
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