Rampant Horse Street in Norwich following air raid in 1942.
- Credit: Archant
A wartime log book has revealed the remarkable story of how children at Norwich primary returned to lessons two days after German bombers destroyed their school.
Children undertake an air raid rehearsal at St Augustines School in Norwich.
- Credit: Norfolk County Council
Research by Norfolk Records Office has unearthed the tale of how the school got its pupils back learning amid the ruins in a temporary log book written at the time by its headmistress Amy Buckley.
She recalled working on school records on the night of the raid, describing how she “ran through the church yard just before the ‘all clear’ to see whether the school was safe, and found it a blazing inferno – nothing to be done”.
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