... the evacuation as they experienced new sights and new surroundings. An example of this is in the " A Coursework Sources Booklet On : the evacuation of British children in the Second World War". On page 6 source 14, a boys says, "instead of having to play cricket in the garden, we went bird nesting". This suggests that the boy did not enjoy playing cricket, but was enjoy himself more when evacuated. But I'm not forgetting this is only the reaction of one boy. But there were some children who would get homesick or not enjoy themselves. This can be expected when you put young children into new surroundings and they would have been scared. In the booklet, page 4, source N it quotes "And hot water from a tap. And there was a lavatory upstairs. And carpets. And something called an eiderdown. And clean sheets. This was all very odd. I ...

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