Letter from wartime Lambeth evacuee Alice McDonald to her family in London. She was initially evacutated to Littlehampton in Sussex before being billetted with Mrs Grant (‘Auntie’) in Bognor Regis. In 2005 she recalled evacuation: “I had just had my 7th birthday when war began….we had our case and our gas mask and we went on the train and went to Littlehampton. When we got out of the train and we walked along the road, and the people opened the door and said ‘I’ll have that one’ and I’ll have that one’. I remember almost being at the end and saying ‘please what’s going to happen to me?’ And a lady came and said ‘I’ll have that one’ and I went with her.” Children over the age of 5 were evacuated away from London because of the threat posed by air raids. Alice’s two sisters Kathy and Betty were younger, so stayed with their parents.Digital image by kind permission of Alice McDonald. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.Ref: SPd 4055\/1+2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Letter from wartime Lambeth evacuee Alice McDonald to her family in London. She was initially evacutated to Littlehampton in Sussex before being billetted with Mrs Grant (‘Auntie’) in Bognor Regis. In 2005 she recalled evacuation: “I had just had my 7th birthday when war began….we had our case and our gas mask and we went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,285,96,30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-home_front_project_2005","category-pencil-drawing","category-people","category-war-and-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n