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Coleridge County School, Cambridge

History of Coleridge School

Joan Robertson attended Coleridge school in the early days of World War Two. In 2016 she related some memories of that time:

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Robertson06-WWII.mp3

Pamela Knights shared in 2016 some vivid memories of Coleridge school, in particular the distance to the air raid shelters:

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Knights05-Coleridge.mp3

She met many evacuees at Coleridge and remembers how unhappy many of them were:

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Knights13-WWII-Refugees-Coleridge.mp3

Because there were so many children, retired teachers were forced to come back to work. This was sometimes resented:

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Knights15-WWII-Coleridge-II.mp3

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  • evacuee
  • oral history
  • school
  • world war two

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