Manchester Children Talking About Evacuation ..

[Elina]

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

[Mosaic]

The accents I heard were 'educated Manchester/ Salford'. given the strictures of the times, this was as near to vox pop as you got.

[Elina]

I think you're right Mosaic, some of them anyway.

[DrFilth]

if a teacher kissed a young lad and tucked him in these days she would be in court ;-)

[Elina]

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.

[factor-fiction]

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

[Mamyalynne]

I loved it, understood every word the Children and Parents said - but struggled with the presenter.


Well Manchester is only 20 minutes away.

[Elina]

Yes , you know instinctively it's northern ;0)

[DrFilth]

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

[Elina]

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!

[DrFilth]

hang on just posting a music track

[DrFilth]

mum me and my two sisters at belle vue

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2u8yt7s&s=8#.U6SwkLFoiTI

[andres]

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.

[Elina]

Was there anything negative to your experience andres? .. or do you have good memories?

[sandyRoe]

Are these middle class children?

[Elina]

I'm not sure sandy.

[sandyRoe]

I don't know Manchester but was thinking Terry Christian had a working class accent and these children seemed well spoken.

[Elina]

I think mostly working class sandy ... imo.

[Elina]

Terry Christians accent is very pronounced. I think it can alter depending which part of Manchester you're living in.

[sandyRoe]

Maybe Christian's accent is the northern version of 'mockney'?

[Elina]

You might be right sandy! ;0)