'I Remember Biting My Lip so Hard I Made It Bleed'

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Ethel carty was only seven when she was left at Paddington Station with nothing more than a bottle of lemonade, some sandwiches wrapped in greaseproof paper and a small cardboard suitcase. Her experience as a World War II evacuee in Wales is one of many that will feature in a special reunion on Tuesday at the Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans, near Cardiff.

Esyllt Lord, spokeswoman for the museum, said, 'Today it's estimated that a quarter of eight-year-olds have a mobile phone in Britain.

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'I Remember Biting My Lip so Hard I Made It Bleed'

'But what would these kids do if they had to leave their homes, families, computers and travel hundreds of miles with thousands of other children to start a new life in a foreign country?

'The evacuees of World War II left their ho...

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