WW2 evacuees speak about their experiences ahead of VE Day
'Lovely couple'
Ms Hoskin said: "You didn't want to go [on the train] because you were leaving your parents."Then we were told x number of children from your class would be going so we thought oh lovely, we are all going on holiday together," she added. Ms Hoskin's new home was Lanner."I was with a lovely couple, they had no children but they had a niece the same age."I used to go up to a farm with them and that was the first time I had ever been to a farm."
'Quite hungry'
She added many were homesick during the evacuation and host families were not always welcoming."We do know that children weren't given enough food," Ms Hoskin explained. "Some of them would come to school and be quite hungry."Quite a few only stayed a week or more and they went back home because they couldn't settle. "But I loved it. I didn't want to go home."
However, not everywhere in Cornwall was safe from falling bombs.David Liddicoat, 86, and from Plymouth, was evacuated twice, once from Plymouth and then from Falmouth."When we were in Falmouth we heard the planes coming over and we all had to go out into the garden where my Uncle Tom had built and air raid shelter," he said. "We all had to climb down into this pit until it all went over."They were trying to bomb the docks. "When that got a little serious, we were moved down to Mevagissey into a bit more of a quieter area."
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