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Evacuation – A Teacher’s View

Jane Elizabeth Carr (nee Summerbell) was born in December 1884 and attended Holy Trinity Church School from the age of 3. She was 14 when she she became a pupil-teacher and she taught at Holy Trinity until the late 1940s. This is her account of the evacuation of Holy Trinity School.

Sources:
Jane Elizabeth Carr (nee Summerbell)
Jeanne Bennett (Granddaughter)
Patricia Rigg (Granddaughter)
Terry Ford

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