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Description: | Alan Ward (b 1944) grew up in Bow in the East End in the years immediately following the Second World War. Here, in conversation with Lynda Pearce of the "Up the Manor" project, he speaks of speaks of his family's return following their evacuation to Norwich during the Second World War. During the war, many children, the younger ones along with their mothers, were evacuated from London due to the risk of air raids. Mr Ward also speaks in this excerpt about the habit of local children playing on bomb-sites after the War. The dangers which accompanied this are made clear at the end of the excerpt. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Leisure London at War Home and Family | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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