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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Vivid Recollections of World War II Evacuees and a Wee Scottish Village '. In seotember 1939 as watr was declared about 300 residents of glasgow were moved to safer ground at Dunning. This is that tale - in 163 pages of recollection. LEARN more about : Dorothy Young now of Blackford. Also : Bunty Laird, Black Jock, tawse, neeps, Spateston, Clydebank, Quarry Road, Dundee, Glengoner camp, reunion, sand martins, and Keltie Castle. Text assisted by one map and several b/w (family) photographs Page xiii has a glossary of Scottish terms - like loo, nit, and mod cons. Volune is clean tight and bright. P/O has marked up the Table of Contents (and elsewhere) with marginalia - think of it as research notes. Almost collectible !! Quote (p. 71) : " When we left on the evacuation train, we felt great. It was just an adventure to us. My friends were all together, and each of us had a bag of food, gas mask, a label round our neck. All in line, chattering like mad. We didn't know where ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Photographs (illustrator). …