{"id":185,"date":"2017-10-03T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rtwbelgians\/?p=185"},"modified":"2017-10-03T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:04:03","slug":"visit-to-the-national-archives-by-carolyn-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rtwbelgians\/2017\/10\/03\/visit-to-the-national-archives-by-carolyn-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to the National Archives: by Carolyn Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Thursday 20th<\/sup> April, as part of\u00a0Royal Tunbridge Wells Belgian Refugees 1914<\/a>\u00a0a group of us went to\u00a0The National Archives<\/a>\u00a0. The day started with a selection of documents relating to World War One, brought to us in a private room by our guide\u00a0Louise Bell<\/a>\u00a0. Then after lunch we were able to carry on, working through the database list, for the refugees who were in Tunbridge Wells.<\/p>\n

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These boxes (above) are full of the double sided cards (top photos) with information about location, names, and also payment details (not all refugees were as wealthy and self supporting as the Tunbridge Wells ones). The card I have featured isn\u2019t a family from the Tunbridge Wells list, but for a time they were at\u00a0Lullingstone Castle<\/a>\u00a0. While we were looking for information on the Tunbridge Wells families, it was hard to not be sidetracked by such things as a \u2018Merry Go Round Operator\u2019 or of all the families that spent their five years here, at Blackpool, or whose husbands were \u2018in Congo\u2019.<\/p>\n

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And is it an error that the Van Dam family were at a place \u201cPreviously Tunbridge Wells Bromyard\u201d?<\/p>\n

During the nine hours there, we didn\u2019t get through all the boxes of cards\u2026 Hopefully we can go back, and find out more about Jose:<\/p>\n

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