Dressed as an evacuee, the experience began by boarding the steam train for a short ride.
When it came to defeating Hitler, food production was considered as vital as weapon production. Many evacuees ended up in farming regions. We looked at some agricultural machinery from the 1940s and 1950s, and heard a man describe the jobs he was given as a child living on a farm.
The children had the chance to ride the miniature railway (not WW2, just for fun), listen to some wartime music, and hear how cattle were transported from the station.
Next we met the Home Guard, a parachutist from the Airbourne Division, and ladies from the ATS.
At the end of the day we saw where excess food for London was stored during the war, and visited the museum. When the siren went off we entered an Air Raid shelter and listened to a recording of a bombing raid on Coventry. We then heard a talk on the hardships experienced by evacuees.
