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| Picture No | 10217198 |
| Date | September 1939 |
| Description | Evacuation of Children from London 1939 |
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The evacuation of Britain's cities at the start of World War Two was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history. In the first four days of September 1939, nearly 3,000,000 people were transported from towns and cities in danger from enemy bombers to places of safety in the countryside.
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| Source | Photograph in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 9 September 1939, page 417 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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