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Evacuees Revisit the Village That Took Them In

Exactly 75 years ago the first wave of wartime evacuees were waking up in their new homes.
 
Hundreds of thousands of children from the cities were sent away to safety, two days before the Second World War was declared.
 
Our Welfare Reporter Victoria Smith has met two evacuees who have revisited the village that took them in.

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