Fay Anderson, Peggy Spence and Avril Watt discuss evacuation to Kinlochleven

My nan's brother and sister were evacuated. Were any of you or your siblings evacuated?

FA: No.

AW: You didn't really need to be evacuated from up here, in Kinlochleven.

FA: We didn't, not here.

PS: There was a lot of people evacuated to Kinlochleven.

FA: But none of us.

AW: Yes, there was a lot of people into Kinlochleven because it was felt it was safer.

PS: There's one lady in the village who is still friendly with her mother's, one of her mother's evacuees.

FA: Oh yes, oh yes.

PS: She still keeps in, they still keep in touch. And there was a brother and sister that came to live with them. And they always came back for holidays for many years. I suppose -

AW: My mother had a French mother with two children in our house.

PS: Mmm. But, there was lots of evacuees came to the village.

FA: Would you have liked to have been evacuated? No.

PS: Neither did they.

FA: Neither, we didn't want it either.