The evacuation of schoolchildren from London went without a hitch. The children, smiling and cheerful, left their parents for unknown destinations in the spirit of going on a great adventure.
'I wish all our passengers were as easy to manage,' a railway official said. 'The children were very well behaved.'
In the picture above: A family goes into an Anderson air raid shelter in their garden, 1939. Each person carries a gas mask in a little box.
'I wish all our passengers were as easy to manage,' a railway official said. 'The children were very well behaved.'
In the picture above: A family goes into an Anderson air raid shelter in their garden, 1939. Each person carries a gas mask in a little box.
At Waterloo, 80 per cent of the normal travellers saw nothing of the schoolchildren. After Earl de la Warr, President of the Board of Education, had toured a number of schools in West London, he said, 'If the arrangements at the other end for receiving the children are as good as at this end, it bodes well for the scheme.'
Waiting rooms, turned into first-aid posts at various stations for the children, were rarely if ever used.
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