The evacuation of Lowestoft Children to Glossop

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Reference WMO/302134

Address:

Glossop Railway Station

Norfolk Street

Glossop

SK13 8BS

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Other Other
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Interpretation board in the waiting room (in the public part of the station before the barriers) and Blue Plaque (on the left wall after the ticket barriers
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Blue Plaque- ON 2ND JUNE 1940/six hundred children arrived at this/station from Lowestoft, Suffolk, as part of a /wider wartime evacuation from East Coast towns. /All were found homes with families in Glossop.//This plaque commemorates the enduring/links and friendships between the/people of Lowestoft and Glossop//2nd June 2017; Top of interpretation board- "Lowestoft to Glossop"/- a journey of evacuation- 2nd June 1940-; Left hand side of interpretation board- Five trains took the youngsters, aged from three/upwards, to the relative safety/of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire./While many later returned to their/home town, some left never to return; Centre of interpretation board- GLOSSOP AND THE LOWESTOFT EVACUATION/During the darkest days of the Second World War, children and teachers from Lowestoft/were evacuated to the Midlands. It was a period in their lives that would never be/forgotten. On Sunday, June 2, 1940, as the threat of war moved towards the east coast,/Lowestoft schoolchildren of all ages were uprooted from their homes for a journey that/would lead to their lives being "changed forever". Some saw it is an adventure, many/were scared, while others were tearful leaving parents and guardians behind and/embarking on a train journey to the Midlands. Six hundred of those children were/evacuated to Glossop forging a link between the two towns which endures to this day.; Right hand side of interpretation board- [Recollections of evacuation by David Utting of Stanford Street, Lowestoft]

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