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Synopsis
~ During World War II around three and a half million British people were evacuated away from possible air raids in
the big cities in one of the largest social upheavals Great Britain has ever seen.
~ Many of the evacuees were
children.
~ Journeys from the cities were long and tiring and the evacuees did not know where they were going. They
were often dropped off in groups and gathered in a local village hall or school to be 'chosen' by the prospective
foster parents. One of those children was Ray Evans whose family was transported from Liverpool to the Welsh Town
of Llanelli.
~ In "Before the Last All Clear", Evans tells a harrowing tale of leaving his mother and being
forced to live with families who at best regarded him as a nuisance and, at worst, exploited him.
~ Evans account takes a happy turn when he is billeted to a family who make him so welcome that he is reluctant to
leave them at the end of the war.
~ Written in a simple, direct style "Before the Last All Clear" depicts
a world far removed from the glamour and sophistication of the twenty-first century.
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The story of one young boy from Liverpool whose family was sent to the Welsh town of
Llanelli for the duration of World War II. Separated from his mother and brothers and sisters, six year-old
Raymond Evans is shunted from pillar to post. At first he has a miserable time, unwanted and largely unloved,
and it appears that his war will be spent without any family—real or surrogate.
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