1st Sept
This is what was happening at Victoria Pier on the 1st September in years gone by...
| 1939 | (Friday) In bright sunshine, trains arrived from 11am bringing over 1,000 children as evacuees from Liverpool before the declaration of War on Sunday 3rd Sept. The children were led down the long flight of steps from the rear of the train station down onto the promenade and to the Pier Pavilion. Here the Women's Voluntary Service, the Colwyn Follies concert party, the Rialto Theatre repertory company, pier employees and various others provided the children with food. Many of these children were from the poorest streets of Liverpool, and this was their first visit to the seaside. In the following days more than 5,000 evacuees arrived. |
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