Bewildered Evacuees…

Evacuation of Liverpool schoolchildren at the start and during the early days of WWII, was intended to secure the safety of their young lives in the event of expected air raids on the city.
Parents’ anxieties were assuaged by this government initiative. The children involved were faced with an unknown prospect, and all that frighteningly entailed.
The initial impact on the child was bewilderment and disappointment at the suddenness of the move.
Ask any child involved and caught up in this emergency measure, were they happy to evacuate or remain close to their parents, despite subsequent carnage as a result of the Blitz?
The answer would be overwhelmingly to stay!
How one individual child managed, is what THE GREEN GATES STORY is all about!

QUESTION: Were you part of this experience and how did you fare?

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