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Article: Your wartime evacuee memories and stories wanted.
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- Berwick Advertiser (Berwick upon Tweed, England)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2008
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WERE you evacuated from your home to Northumberland during World War Two? Maybe your family looked after an evacuated child? Then your memories and stories are wanted for future generations.
Liz O'Donnell, who is based at Woodhorn Museum and Archives near Ashington, works for a Heritage Lottery-funded project called Access to Northumberland's History (A2NH), and part of her job is to add to the fascinating collection of oral history recordings which is kept at Woodhorn.
The recordings began in the early 1970s and there are nearly 500 interviews, including rare recordings about everyday life in the very early twentieth century, on the farms, down the pits ...