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Letter from wartime Lambeth evacuee Alice McDonald to her parents in London. She was initially evacutated to Littlehampton in Sussex before being billetted with Mrs K Grant of Gravits Lane, Bognor Regis. This letter mentions an air raid warning in Bognor when 'Auntie' [Mrs Grant] put her under the table - 'its fine fun' noted Alice. In 2005 she recalled an air raid: "Sometimes she [Mrs Grant] didn't want to go to the air raid shelter - there was a little park, a green with the air raid shelters, and we were allocated the middle one. And one night she said she didn't feel well enough, so we went under the stairs; and there was a direct hit on the middle shelter! And the next day she wrote to my mum and said come and bring Alice home; that was 1940."Digital image by kind permission of Alice McDonald. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06711
Identifier:	SPd 4055/3
Date:	c.1940

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