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London County Council Education Department: Instructions to Mr F.W. Smith for the evacuation of schools issued in July 1939 (10 pages). As with many villages, Shrivenham received a number of evacuated children at the start of World War II. The recollections of Victor Simon, an evacuee, can be read by searching for reference N656.
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