Pictures and information courtesy of the Home Front Museum, Llandudno
LLANDUDNO played host to many thousands of evacuees during the Second World War and unlike other Welsh towns the displaced were not children but adults.
Plans were drawn up to move vital government departments out of London to the provinces if war came and Llandudno, with an excess of vacant accommodation, was an obvious choice.
The first to arrive were the Inland Revenue followed by the School of Coast Artillery, who relocated to the lower slopes of the Great Orme.
Later, the Variety Department of the BBC broadcast from the Grand Theatre and in 1944 American troops arrived in the build up to D-Day.
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