... and houses. Often where the children lived would be nicer then in London. For example they had running warm water and baths, they had lots of things that most families did not have in the city. Many of the children did had never been in clean houses like the ones in the country before, also they often had clean beds to sleep in, a lot of them had never even cleaned their teeth before and given tooth brushes for the first time. There were mixed experiences for the children who were evacuated. Some were very happy, helping on the farms and eating better than they had ever done. This also affects the fosterers in the country whose job it was to look after the children when they moved to the country. For a lot of them it was their chance to do something for the war effort and a lot ...

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