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Bury County Borough: town clerk's correspondence files relating to evacuees including papers relating to children returned to Channel Islands families and families choosing to remain in Bury

Reference ABU/T793
Date 1944 - 1948
Scope and Content Many Channel Islanders were evacuated to Bury and Tottington in 1940 and references to them appear in a number of the local authority records. Many were housed in the council estate known locally as 'Dicky Bird' in Bury and many unaccompanied children were placed at the Danesmoor home in Bury and at Holly Mount convent in Tottington.
Keywords evacuees | Children
Places Channel Islands, Bury
Access restrictions Document not located at Jersey Archive
Closed until 2100