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Evacuation(transcript)
Highland memoirs WW2: Evacuation (transcript) : Mrs Sheila Mackay talks about children being evacuated to the highlands during World War 2
Mrs Sheila MacKay

Some of the children were evacuated from the cities because that’s where they thought the bombs were coming to, and when the fighter bombers came over a lot of children from the cities in Scotland were evacuated up here to the Highlands. Some of these children came from Glasgow. They were very young and were taken away from their parents, mums and dads, grannies and granddads, brothers and sisters and they went to a strange place and they didn’t know when they were coming, and arrived in Inverness station with a label round their neck with a few bits and pieces in their case and some of them were put to farms to work and to stay, and some of them weren’t very well treated you know? They were sort of, made to work. Some of them were very young and frightened so it wasn’t a very happy trip for these children that were evacuated.

 
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Last updated:05 Aug 2005
Date created :25 Apr 2005