Amalgamation with London evacuee school.
Hundreds of children were evacuated from London to Swanage where it was thought to be safe from bombing. They went to school with a gas mask, in a box around their necks, sometimes the gas mask was Mickey Mouse shaped. The children had to practice a drill at school in case of attack and there are dozens of alerts recorded in the log books and the town was badly bombed several times. Anyone with empty houses or spare rooms took evacuees. There were large boulders, barbed wire and scaffolding to stop any invasion on Swanage beach.
