TY - BOOK AU - Farrington,Karen TI - The angels of Englemere Wood SN - 9780241557198 (pbk.) : U1 - 940.53161 23 PY - 2023/// PB - Michael Joseph KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Children KW - Great Britain KW - Evacuation of civilians KW - England KW - Warfare and Defence KW - Autobiography: historical, political & military KW - European history KW - Second World War KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century N1 - Originally published: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Life in Britain between the two world wars was arduous and daunting. Working people laboured to stave off the spectres of disease, hunger and homelessness, and against this troubled backdrop, children inevitably came off worst. This is the true story of a group of poor London girls who, to escape the merciless bombing of the Luftwaffe, were dispatched to a children's home in Ascot. Where once they heard the throb of railways and tasted the smoke of locomotives, now there was birdsong and a whole new set of escapades to enjoy. And under the care of the formidable but kindly Matron Doris Bailey, and their high society host Dorothy Peyton, the lives of the girls were utterly transformed ER -