Rose Bussingham talked to Tony Shaw about her family’s evacuation from London in 1940.
Rose and family were bombed out of their house in 1940 and they were billeted on a family in Little Downham. Her mother was a widow with six children but only three children came with her. Rose was five years old, her brother Henry was eight and Joy was two. Joy cried a lot and was taken into care. Her father was wounded in the first world war and died of TB in 1937.
In 1941 they were moved to a cottage in Popes Lane, Little Thetford. …
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