Primary Sources:
World War II in North Ayrshire

Local Newspapers: Evacuation
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The following topic has been researched by secondary school history teachers and the Local History Librarian at North Ayrshire Libraries Local History department using local newspapers published at the time of WWII.


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Source One: Evacuation Scheme


Summary: Minute of meeting of the Town Council; Kilwinning excluded from the lists of places unsuitable for receiving transferred persons, despite its proximity to Nobel’s explosives; Clerk to write to Department of Health asking that Kilwinning be excluded from the list of reception areas; reply from the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald,17/2/39 Click on picture to enlarge

 

Source Two: Evacuation Scheme: Plans for Landward part of County
Summary: A maximum number of 8,200 children from Glasgow could be sent to the County of Ayr; meeting attended by people who had volunteered to act as reception and billeting officers; plan would only be carried out if air raids developed on a serious scale; only school age children would be sent, without their mothers.
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 24/5/40 Click on picture to enlarge

 

Source Three: New arrangements for West Kilbride
Summary: 300 protestant unaccompanied children will be sent from Glasgow to West Kilbride; billeting allowances.
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 31/5/40 Click on picture to enlarge

 

Source Four: Evacuees

Summary: Health and physical condition of the evacuated children
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 25/10/40 Click on picture to enlarge

 

Source Five: The Evacuation Problem
Summary: Destruction caused by children

 
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 16/5/41 Click on picture to enlarge
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Images courtesy of the Kevin Morrison Collection, a special collection within Research Collections at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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