I was evacuated with my two brothers and my mother from Dagenham, Essex, on the 1st September 1939. We travelled from Dagenham Dock to Great Yarmouth, aboard the Golden Eagle paddle steamer.
On Monday, 4th September, we were transferred by coach to Mundesley, Norfolk. After six weeks there, we were taken to Overstrand, near Cromer, Norfolk, where we were billeted in the Pleasance, a large property where a large number of evacuees were already billeted.
It would be good to hear from any ex evacuees that were billeted in the Pleasance, or the village of Overstrand. We must have gone to school together there.
I am now aged 75 years, married to another ex evacuee. He was evacuated from Shoreditch to Melksham in Wiltshire. We have two children and five grandchildren.
For most of my working life I have been employed as typist, working mainly in the city of London.
For years I have attended art classes and these have led to A level exams and a degree course in graphic fine art at University.
The Evacuation has been a feature of my University work. It was interesting to create images by using the 'LABEL' and the luggage, carrier bags and gas masks that are forever engraved on our memories.
I am now collecting poems by ex evacuees and hope to illustrate them, not for any commercial reasons, but to add to my own memorabilia.
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