Do you have a memory to share?

Children on the move is a project working to create a lasting record of evacuation in Staffordshire. Whether you were an evacuee or not, if you have an evacuation momory to share we would love to hear from you!

Click here to get in touch with us or have a look around the website and share some of the momories that we’ve gathered so far.

Elizabeth Barker

Elizabeth Barker was evacuated with her two younger sisters first to Norfolk and then Dilhorne, Staffordshire. The cousin of her two friends in Dilhorne was to be her future husband...

Jean Banks

Jean was evacuated with her family from Colchester to Stoke-on-Trent. She was born in India and her mother found it very difficult to get used to being poor.

Arthur Garner

Arthur Garner was evacuated to Staffordshire after first being billeted in Stalham in the Norfolk Broads. He went with his two younger brothers and ended up on a poultry farm, which he loved.

Children on the Move

A lasting record of wartime evacuation

Do you have a memory to share?

Elizabeth Barker

Jean Banks

Arthur Garner