During the ‘Phoney War’, many evacuees drifted back home only to return once the Blitz started. In the Rhondda valley, 33,500 evacuees from London, Cardiff and Bristol found shelter in the ...

Photo: Very young evacuees prepare to travel, circa 1940. The experience was not always the exciting and jolly one that contemporary propaganda portrayed. (Getty Images) Edward Gill, an evacuee ...

When Germany bombed Belfast as part of the Blitz during World War Two ... encapsulated the sense of panic in her diary account: "Evacuation is taking on panic proportions. Roads out of town ...

From taking in evacuees, to the increased production of the coal mines, life was to change for many people. Swansea blitz 1941 When war broke out What are these? Trace this distinctly Welsh family ...