Old friends were reunited at Blenheim Palace yesterday when more than 70 former schoolboy evacuees gathered to remember their time there during the war.
More than 400 boys and 100 staff were evacuated from Malvern College at the start of the Second World War, setting up school rooms in huts and dormitories in the state rooms.
George Chesterton, 82, recalls when, as a 17-year-old at Blenheim, he threw a cricket ball through a palace window and was taken to see the Duke of Marlborough.
He said: "I think he was more nervous than I was. I loved every minute of it here, playing cricket all summer and three weeks of skating on the lake in Easter term."
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