PUPILS of one class at Yeoford School have been doing a lot of research into the last World War, pulling together family memories, recreating an Anderson shelter, talking to local people who had been involved in the war.

It all came together in a small Museum in the classroom with a cafe selling cakes made in the style of wartime baking and some made by the children using wartime rations.

Funds raised were being shared between the RBL Poppy Appeal and Crediton Museum. Among the visitors was Cheryl Lewis, Education Officer for Crediton Area History and Museum Society, who had met the children when they visited the museum.

They had taken the train from Yeoford, as if they were evacuees. At the Museum on the High Street Cheryl told them the story she had written about a little boy who had been evacuated from London. She also gave them lots of advice about staging a display.

At the Museum Helena Skyes had told the children how much food they would have been allowed during the War, about Ration Books, and how a ration for one person could have looked.

Among the visitors to the museum in the school were David and Paddy Dornom, both grew up in Cheam and were five when war was declared.

During the afternoon everyone went outside where short prayers were said by the Rev Matthew Tregenza, Rector for Crediton, with David Dornom reciting the Exhortation. The bugle was blown by music tutor Richard Miners.