Elsie, 91, and her amazing memories

Sunderland pensioner Elsie Ronald, 91, has re-lived the day she was evacuated from Sunderland in 1939.

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00:00I had an older sister who was two and a half years older than me.

00:03She was going to the junior school

00:05and she was evacuated with the school to Thirsk.

00:10OK.

00:11And we'd always been together and I missed her

00:14and I remember crying, sobbing,

00:17I want Jean, I want Jean.

00:19So eventually my parents decided I could go and join her.

00:23Right, OK.

00:24And so was it a train down to Thirsk, was it?

00:27Yes, I remember being put on the train

00:30in the charge of a neighbour at Monquamath Station.

00:35Yeah.

00:36Sitting on the train, I'd been given a comic to read on the train

00:41and passed to my sister when I got there.

00:45And the lady who was escorting me,

00:46when I put it down after I'd looked at it for a bit,

00:49I put it on the seat and said,

00:51shall I put that in my bag?

00:54And it was probably, was the last I saw of it,

00:57it was probably an oversight,

00:59but I feel as if she stole it.

01:01Oh, right.

01:01And that's 36 years ago and I haven't forgiven her yet.

01:04Oh, truth. OK.

01:06OK.

01:07You