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Ma Brightmore, 81 year old evacuee in the Oxfordshire village of Charlbury from Londons East End, has discovered she is a born darts player. In the bar-parlour of the Rose and Crown
Children prepare to be evacuated from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, 11th September 1939
London evacuees return from Suffolk. Parents greeting their children on arrival at St Pancras station, London. September 1942
Children wait on the platform of East Ham railway station waiting for evacuation to the country. 2nd September 1939
Three weeks old Raymond Ratford, the youngest evacuee, photographed with the mother. The second convoy of London evacuees
World War Two, evacuation of children. Written in the faces of these children, setting off to safety is a tale of fears and doubts hardly formed in their bewildered minds
Child refugees washing in Salisbury Cathedral during the Second World War. 25th November 1940
Children waiting to be evacuated from Southampton 1940, to avoid the WW2 German air raids
Children from London evacuated to South Wales. October 1940
Evacuated Birmingham schoolchildren seen here cooling off with an ice cream whilst taking in the sights of Stratford of Avon. 4th September 1939
Liverpool - July 1944. Evacuation children at a Liverpool Train Station. It is not clear if they have arrived from London, or are going to London. Picture taken 24th July 1944
Evacuation to Wales. May 1940. Many thousands of people, along with vital institutions and priceless historical objects, were evacuated to Wales for safety in the Second World War
Children evacuated from Lathom Road, East London during World War II. Circa 1939
The first British children evacuees arrive in Australia. Pictures here at a zoo in Melbourne. The Childrens Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation
World War Two - Evacuation of children This happy study of evacuees from Heaton, Newcastle, shows a school class setting out for a nature study in the woods " somewhere in Northumberland"
Children - Food - 1940s Young Boy standing outside a shop, with a loaf of bread and a toffy carrot instead of a toffy apple which are on ration
East End schoolchildren wait for evacuation to the country. 2nd September 1939
Norwegian children and their families arrive in the UK after being evacuated from Spitzbergen. 12th September 1941
Evacuees are brought into the town of Brand, Germany, where they were registered and given food. 9th October 1944
A little group of Birmingham children who as a result of the evacuation, have exchanged the citys crowded streets for the peace and calm of an un-named Warwickshire village. 4th September 1939
Evacuated Birmingham schoolchildren seen here taking in the sights of Stratford of Avon. 4th September 1939
Michael David aged 5 months, a poor foundling who has been bombed from his home, now at the Hampstead Rest Home run by Miss Anna Freud. January 1941
Some of the children who were evacuated from Bristol and sent to the safety of the Somerset, Devon and Cornwall countryside between February 1941 and March 1942
Sacrifice is this schools lesson, for here the children are offering their toys for sale to help the Soldiers Comfort Fund. 22nd June 1940
The hand maidens. They also serve who only sit and wait. So the youngest inhabitant in the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, her fingers too small to hold knitting needles
The flying Magic Carpet of the Arabian Nights has nothing on the Anderson shelter you see battered and bent, but still taking it, in the picture
In this quaint old mansion where they have a real old four-poster bed, four evacuees play make-believe bedtime games with their dolls. Circa November 1941
Evacuated children with their teacher Mrs Hunt in St. Ives, rural England during the Second World War. 15th May 1945
Evacuated children Irene Barker and Victor Woolridge take part in a singing competition in the classroom of their new school in rural Wales during the Second World War. 13th September 1944
The Pound family of Islington, London, return home from being evacuated to Harborough, Leicestershire. The family race up the steps of the home with Mr Pound who stayed behind, in the background
Mrs Reynolds, a ticket collector, and the mother of two evacuated children herself, takes the Lovell family through the barrier to their train. 6th July 1944
The garb of the nun is the age-old symbol of sister of mercy. In a country home of beauty and quietness this nun cares for evacuated children from the bombed areas
Its a great thing to know that so many mothers and children are being evacuated from London?s danger spots to safer areas outside. The children themselves, how ever, are amazingly calm about it all
Many and varied are the jobs done the Womens Voluntary Services. Looking round the teeth and down the throats of evacuee children is one the jobs, you see in the picture. Circa October 1940
By the inglenook fire of an old English mansion, these happy evacuee children from a blitzed area are learning the magic of Alice in Wonderland. Circa November 1941
Wroxton St. Mary near Banbury. Wroxton Abbey is now base of the staff of an evacuated London firm. Oxfordshire. 16th April 1943
Mrs Davies welcomes Mrs Thompson and her children, to her home in Stonefield Road Huyton, Merseyside, where they are to lodge. Picture taken circa 1st May 1942 (not actual date on caption)
Mill Road Rest Centre in Liverpool, Merseyside. Picture shows mothers and their babies who have just arrived on an evacuation train from London. Picture undated
Child eChild evacuees from England arrive in Australia during the Second World War. 16th December 1940
Norwegians waiting to be evacuated from the Svalbard Islands late one evening during the Spitzbergen Raid. 2nd September 1941
Evacuees on a ship from Great Britain arrive in South Africa during the Second World War. 18th October 1940
Women and children who were evacuated from the city of Penang, Malaysia to reduce the possibilities of casualties from bombs, arrive at a station en route to the South of the country. June 1945
Commander Walder, R. N. (retired) and his wife have taken five evacuated boysCommander Walder, R.N. (retired) and his wife have taken five evacuated boys and a girl from the blitzed cities. He made one condition in taking them
Evacuees from a heavily blitzed town have found a peaceful haven on a famous Warwickshire farm. The Land Girls are giving them a lift home from the village school as they all return to the farm at
Children being evacuated, pictured leaving Harwich. June 1940
Rehearsal of evacuation at St Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road. September 1939
The centre of Sheffield ablaze during the first major bombing raid to hit the city on the night of 12-13th December 1940
Women and children internees from Surabaya boarding HMS Bulolo, bound for Singapore. Circa 1942
