PUPILS from the region's schools are being transported back to the Forties to relive the experiences of wartime evacuees.
Children from Consett Junior School, dressed as children escaping the Blitz, were taken by bus to Darlington Railway Museum, in Darlington. There, they experienced the Time Trackers living history project - staged by Visitation Productions - and met actors playing the roles of characters from the Forties.
Headteacher David Yates said: "They relived what it was like to be evacuated from their schools and taken from their homes to the countryside. The pupils all made boxes for gas masks, had Union Jacks, luggage with labels and lunches packed in parcels of brown paper tied with string."
The two-week Time Trackers scheme, which started on Monday, will be attended by more than 750 pupils.
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