English children evacuated during The Blitz eat their Christmas dinner in 1941 in a home for evacuees in Henley-on-Thames, a town along the River Thames in Oxfordshire.
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On this day…
Wallingford Station in Oxfordshire, England is photographed here on the 26th of March, 1959. Opened in 1866, today the railway is part of a heritage service.
Wartime Christmas
This photograph is from a Christmas party at a home for evacuees in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England in 1941.
As Britain had been at war for more than two years at this point, a woman is playing Father Christmas.
Here is another image from the same event.
A Christmas party for war children
British children evacuated from the cities during World War Two were invited to a Christmas party in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in December, 1941.
The party was hosted by American children, while Father Christmas was played by a woman.