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15 October 2014
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When I met the Evacuees

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Hilary Hayward
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Abercan, Monmouthshire
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Civilian
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A4414952
Contributed on:听
10 July 2005

Just after the war started trainloads of evacuees came to the village station. We were told that if you had a spare bed we had to take in an evacuee.
We were paid 7 and 6pence - worth less than 50pence these days - to have one evacuee.
Her name was Hilda Still and she came from the dock area of Chatham in Kent.
Hilda was with us for about 2 years.
The schools were overrun and the village children went in the morning and the evacuees went in the afternoon and we had to go to school in the evenings and on the weekends and school holidays.
We all got on alright together and played together and shared everything with eachother and a lot of children went back home and when the bombing started again they came back. When it quietend down they went back in around about 1944.

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