Evacuated.

This afternoon Lorna Jenner - author of from Liverpool to Loggerheads - gave a fascinating lecture to the Caerwys Historical Society. She drew upon her extensive researches on the impact being evacuated had upon the children of Liverpool. Infact Lorna made us realise that it was not just the process of being evacuated that was difficult, but the returning back 'home' after the war was equally challenging.

I have written about evacuation to the Caerwys area. My view is that conditions for the evacuated children were not always as positive as the propaganda of the day had us believe. In fact accounts from the evacuees' are much more likely to be from those that had a positive experience. Those children who were exploited or who suffered life-changing homesickness are much less a likely to be recorded for historians to consider. 

In my introduction to the lecture I described evacuation as the greatest social experiment ever undertaken in this country. All we heard this afternoon confirmed this opinion.