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Castlehill School Log Book p. 229 & 230
Unknown, 1939, Document
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Castlehill School Log Book p. 229 & 230
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Castlehill School Log Book p. 229 & 230
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A double page entry for the beginning of school session 1939 - 1940 in the Castlehill School Log Book. It starts 'Schools reopened after Summer Vacation a week earlier than arranged for, owing to acute International situation'. Later entries describe the instructions received and the operations to evacuate the schoolchildren out of Edinburgh at the start of the Second World War.
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1939
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Edinburgh City Archives
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31.8. 39 Word was received from the Chief Evacuation Officer to carry out actual evacuation of children on 1st September.
Pamphlets to Parents were issued to each child and the school dismissed.
Head teacher and staff were on duty from 6 to 9pm to interview Parents.
1.9.39 Evacuation Day. School opened at 7am. Enrolling etc of children proceeded with. After enrolling, refreshments to parents and pupils issued and by 9.40am the evacuation preliminaries were overtaken and the party to the number of 268, composed of 30 teachers, 2 "C" Helpers, 34 mothers, 44 children of pre-school age, 114 pupils of primary school age and 44 post primary pupils set off for Waverley Station en route for the reception area in Hawick.
30,000 children and some mothers were evacuated out of Edinburgh and away from the bombing raids. They were sent on trains all over Scotland to Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Moray, Nairn, Peebleshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, East and West Lothian. For many of the city's children it was the first time they had ever been to the countryside. For some it was a happy experience, but others were very homesick. Some children were not so well treated including those from Edinburgh's slums who turned up on people's doorsteps with no changes of clothes and covered in lice and fleas.
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