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Home Front Recall
On 14th September 2005 the "Evacuees’ Express" left Downham for Folkestone, where Downderry School pupils were evacuated in September 1939. Five of the original evacuees, together with their families and friends, met our local tour guide Eamonn Rooney, and the press from the Folkestone Herald, before visiting the RAF memorial, stopping for a fish and chips lunch at the Lighthouse Inn, then on to the Battle of Britain museum at Hawkinge.
This very busy day ended with an invitation to tea and cakes with the Mayor of Folkestone, Cllr George Bunting, and town councillors at Folkestone Library. Library staff displayed their own wartime photographs and memorabilia especially for us.
In 2005 the North Downham Training Project was awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to for their Home Front Recall project 'Those Were the Downham Days and Learning from History'.
The project, in conjunction with the BBC's The People's War, engaged the local community young and old with stories, activities, trips and events recalling Downham during the Second World War 1939-45.
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