Wartime memories of Preston near Hitchin Part One — Evacuees at school in Preston and ... one o’clock and then all these girls in their green uniform, ours was blue and gold, theirs was ...

I was born in 1927 and lived in Hitchin during the war. I was 12 when the war started. I went to the Girls’ Grammar School and we had to take our gas masks everywhere with us. Eastbourne Grammar ...

We all started in the village school and then we went onto Hitchin Grammar School later ... one o’clock and then all these girls in their green uniform, ours was blue and gold, theirs was ...