When wartime evacuees came to stay

Barbara remembers welcoming World War II evacuees to her home in Bagillt, Flintshire.

Transcript: "My name is Barbara Carr but I was Barbara Jones. Some time during the war a family called Guy from Liverpool were assigned to my parents' farm, that being Tyn Twll Farm, Bagillt. The family consisted of a mother and two young sons, Billy and Lesley. They lived in some outbuildings above the 'shipping'. There was a large living room that contained a cooking range for cooking and a boiler for heating water. This range was fuelled by coal. Electricity wasn't installed until 1952 so paraffin or tilly lamps had to be used for lighting.

"They had been so happy here during the war they asked if they could carry on coming over for the holidays, and this they did. Every Easter they would come and also other members of their family until the end of the school holidays. They loved having fresh milk, eggs and potatoes and often helped us with the hay and corn harvest. In the evening they would walk across the fields down to the Royal Oak pub and sometimes down the road to the Taylors' club in the village. They carried on coming well into the sixties and only stopped because cheap holidays to Spain started to be so attractive."