Lowestoft evacuees in June 1940. (Image: Lowestoft Evacuees Association)

Hosted by the Wherry Lines Community Rail Partnership and the Lowestoft Central Project, it returns to the very location those evacuated departed from on June 2, 1940.

The reunion is for former evacuees and family members, allowing them the chance to reminisce about their experiences 86 years ago.

Former Lowestoft Wartime Evacuees and their guests at their Summer Reunion event at Lowestoft railway station in 2024. Picture: Wherry Lines CRP (Image: Wherry Lines CRP)

Back then more than 3,000 schoolchildren and teachers left Lowestoft on five trains on their way to Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire for the duration of the war.

Over 600 of those evacuated found safety in and around the High Peak town of Glossop, with the memories made and links formed between the two communities all........

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