Evacuee From London
A Memory of High Wycombe.
Dear Sir/Madam. I am at present researching my childhood days at 86,Easton Street Boys
Hostel, High Wycombe. I do remember walking to school with other boys alongside the Wye River. The name of that school escapes my memory. Unfortunately my parents were in the army during that period so a visit was few and far, the hostel authority's address at that time was 87, East End, High Wycombe. All info I have gathered from London Archives 1995. I was then a resident of Denmark so letters and the odd journey to London were few, but I acquired some faded copies of aerial photos and scraps of written material. Fortunately with my Windows 7 lap-top & google earth I can move faster and photos. Alas I moved (like evacuees) to "Wing Lodge" Wing, Berkshire, another Boys Hostel. I think it very sad that we three were separated - myself Robert, Mary, Fred. We never did become a family bond.
Thanks for listening.
Robert.
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I believe, however, that the school to which you walked was almost certainly Spring Gardens Primary, to which all the hostel boys were sent in my time. ( It no longer exists, in common with the old railway from High Wycombe to Bourne End which ran alongside it.)
When you mention the "London Archives", which are the archives in question? I ask because I am also interested in finding out more about the hostel. I heard somewhere that it was run by Barnardo's. An interesting feature of it in my day was that, although the children in the hostel were all boys, the staff were all female.