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Coursework: Britain in WWII evacuation. 1. Study sources B and C. Which source is more useful as evidence about the start of the children's evacuation journey? Explain your answer using sources B and C and knowledge from your studies. Heavy bombing was expected in Britain's large industrial centres. The government thought that people would be safer in the countryside, so plans were drawn up to evacuate people from the cities. Britain was divided into three zones; evacuation areas, reception areas in the country where evacuees were sent, and neutral areas from which nobody was evacuated from or to. Evacuation began on 1st September 1939, many trains and buses were prepared. Enormous numbers of people were evacuated, nearly one and a half million people in September alone. Out of these, 827,000 were schoolchildren. Source B is useful because it is a photo typical of the time. It shows evacuees walking to a train station...

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