By this time all these persons in these special classes in the different areas ought to have been informed by their local authorities where to assemble and the day and time at which to be there.' Goods as well as people were evacuated; organisations or departments departed the cities. Art treasures were sent to distant storage: The National Gallery collection spent the war at the Manod Quarry near Ffestiniog, North Wales. [2] The Bank of England moved to the small town of Overton, Hampshire and in 1939–40 moved 2,154 tons of gold to the vaults of the Bank of Canada in Ottawa. [3] [4] The BBC moved variety production to Bristol and Bedford and moved senior staff to Wood Norton [5] near Evesham, Worcestershire. Many senior Post Office staff were relocated to Harrogate. Some private companies moved head offices or their most vital records to comparative safety away from major cities.

Even at the time, there were some that had grave concerns about the psychological effect on especially the younger children, and wondered whether they would be better off taking the risks with their parents. [17] [18]As there was such pressure on rural households to take evacuees, some children were billeted with childless couples and for many a lifelong relationship ensued. These are the good news stories that we don't hear enough about.

It is housed in the Museum of Cornish Life and Bodmin. Make the most of this opportunity to pursue an ambitious public history project. Disrupted Lives, an excavation of many aspects of the Cornish experience during the war, is a project that has been commissioned by the British Museum. As a newly-appointed Digital Intern, I got to learn about wartime Cornwall from the accounts of child refugees from London. During World War II, Carmin and his brother were taken from London to Cornwall by ferry. The IWM’s Sound Archive houses Carmin’s testimony, which can be viewed by anyone. After her visit to Cornwall, Reeny Summers described it as a ‘terrific long journey.’

Tweedie, Neil (19 January 2011). "Madresfield Court: The King's redoubt if Hitler called". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 12 August 2012. Mary Whiteman: “Mostly the school children went straight to the training college and then were taken, met by billeting officers who offered to find them homes, and it does credit to the town to say that that first night everybody had somewhere to go. And they just counted up the rooms that was the idea you've in the old days, you count how many rooms and how many people.” Girls from Notre Dame High School in Battersea, south London bathing in the River Towy at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire in 1940