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Refugees from Holland arriving at a London station in the summer of 1940 as the German invasion proceeded into France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark. Britain offered the only safe haven for many fleeing Europeans.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06841
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.3
Date:	1940

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