Elaine Robson’s Memories of the Second World War.

Elaine Robson’s remembers: I was evacuated privately from London and came to GCGS from Haslemere CofE with Janet Archer: 1941-45 (Mr Wigfield, St Johns Boys’, the failed V1 doodlebug, gas masks). We returned to our London home. I went from school to study and teach in universities (work and interests in biology and later history of science). Some of the GCGS teachers did a splendid job and enriched our lives. During the War about a quarter of the pupils came by train. Food was rationed: we had school milk and a cooked lunch, shared hot bread and sweet rations on the home train, and grew up strong and healthy. No flu vaccine then, only M&B[*] tablets, and it’s thanks to computers and Zoom that I attended the last AGM: WOW!

[*] May and Baker manufactured sulphanilamide antibacterial medication, known as M&B tablets.