Today's children re-create experience of war evacuees

And yesterday more than 70 primary school children got a sense of what they would have gone through when they recreated a wartime evacuation from Hull's Paragon Station.

Pupils from St Mary Queen of Martyrs Roman Catholic school dressed in 1940s clothes and carried home-made gas mask cases as they bid their parents farewell, sang songs from the era, and boarded a train to Driffield.

They were met on arrival by a soldier, a land girl, the sound of air raid sirens and a 1940s car, before making their way to Eden Camp in North Yorkshire.

The journey, which was subsidised by Northern Rail, was to reinforce lessons the children have been having on the Second World War.

Headteacher Finola Barron Headteacher said: "The children have been studying the Second World War at school, including a visit from someone who was evacuated to hear about their experiences.

"We wanted to bring history to life and make it more interesting for our children, so we thought that this type of re-enactment would be a fun way of getting them to relate to some of the experiences of children in those times."

She added: "I'd like to thank Northern Rail for their support."