In The News

I’m very grateful that a number of publications both in the UK and in the USA have found Before The Last All Clear and my experiences as a child evacuee under the British Government’s Operation Pied Piper interesting enough to write about. These links are to the most recent articles published as I’ve become aware of them. If you’re aware of others please Contact Me as I’d love to include them here too.

All the best,

 
 
 
 
 

Liverpool Echo – 1st September, 2014

As war loomed 75 years ago, Liverpool started evacuating its children. Catherine Jones and Tom Belger learn more about Operation Pied Piper.

When six-year-old Ray Evans lined up at school with his little bag, tightly clutching the hand of his older sister Elsie, he thought he was going on a day out.

Some of the other children in the queue even had buckets and spades with them.

But this was September 4, 1939, and the trip Ray was about to embark on wouldn’t see him home and tucked up in time for bed. Continue reading…

 
 

Lancashire Life – 22nd August, 2014

This month marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Pied Piper which saw more than 3.5million people evacuated from cities around Britain to escape German bombs. Six-year-old Ray Evans was one of them and this is his story. Continue reading…