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BCA - 2022.3941
Title
Evacuees to Bampton 1940 and Shirley Boyce's Memoir
Date(s)
- 1940-43 (Creation)
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PDF x 8 pages text and photographs
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Shirley Boyce was an Evacuee to Bampton during World War II and has written an interesting account of her time in Bampton staying at a Manor House (Weald Manor?). Which had been divided into flats. She later stayed in Aston. The photo is of evacuated children from Bow, London playing in the grounds of Weald Manor in 1940. Two boys Kenny Howe and Leslie Tucker were billeted in New Road with Mr and Mrs Whighting?