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Manchester Children Talking About Evacuation ..

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Elina | 20:24 Thu 19th Jun 2014 | History
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I listened to this this morning. Manchester accents, but they sound so strange. Very sweet naive account of their thoughts on where they were evacuated! http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7922.shtml
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The accents I heard were 'educated Manchester/ Salford'. given the strictures of the times, this was as near to vox pop as you got.
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I think you're right Mosaic, some of them anyway.
if a teacher kissed a young lad and tucked him in these days she would be in court ;-)
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That little lads comments on that made me laugh Dr ;0) Made me think, if evacuation was implemented today, how the hell that would work!? I really don't think it would. Imagine being asked to take in a child or a couple of children even.
I agree with Mosaic.
The RP accents of the presenter and interviewer also interest me- they sound really odd but I suppose at the time it was accepted
I loved it, understood every word the Children and Parents said - but struggled with the presenter.


Well Manchester is only 20 minutes away.
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Yes , you know instinctively it's northern ;0)
elina have you ever listened to your own voice when you were young, listened to mine and just remembered the day

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=bfownm&;s=8#.U6SvqrFoiTI
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Is that a recording of when you were young Dr? Funnily enough, yes I have listened to myself from years ago .. my dad had a reel to reel tape recorder & taped me talking to my gran!
hang on just posting a music track
mum me and my two sisters at belle vue

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2u8yt7s&s=8#.U6SwkLFoiTI
We had two evacuees from London. Elsie and Billy. They lived with us for about 18 months and settled down very well. They went to school with us
but I don't remember any children coming to Bacup from Manchester only the ones from London but then I was only very young myself.
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Was there anything negative to your experience andres? .. or do you have good memories?
Are these middle class children?
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I'm not sure sandy.
I don't know Manchester but was thinking Terry Christian had a working class accent and these children seemed well spoken.
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I think mostly working class sandy ... imo.
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Terry Christians accent is very pronounced. I think it can alter depending which part of Manchester you're living in.
Maybe Christian's accent is the northern version of 'mockney'?
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You might be right sandy! ;0)

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