- Contributed by
- Action Desk, BBC Radio Suffolk
- People in story:
- Pat Barker nee:Castledon
- Location of story:
- Lowestoft - Langwith - an evacuee
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4506527
- Contributed on:
- 21 July 2005
I was evacuated from Lowestoft in May 1940 with my brother, Eric and our schools.
We went by train to Langwith,a mining village on the Notts/Derby border.
We were initially taken to the village hall where local people came along to volunteer for one(or two) evacuee children. We -my brother and I were taken in by Mr and Mrs Cooper.He was a manager at the local collery. We went to school at the village school part time the local children attended the other half.
We were treated well but my mother came to collect us two years later to go to live with my Aunt Hilda in Leicester. I was ten aged 7.
WE returned to Lowestoft in 1945 when my father came out of the R.A.F.
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