The Acting Training and Education charity will come to Bromesberrow to provide a living history weekend for junior age youngsters.

The three-day event will be based at Dyke House and start today (Friday) when Year 5 and 6 children from local primary schools will discover what it was like to be an evacuee 1940.

Laureen Harrison, a spokes-man for Malvern based ATE, said: "They will be asked to come dressed as evacuees. On arrival, they will be given identity cards and ration books. Food will be prepared in accordance with a 1940 Ministry of Food handbook."

The youngsters will hear an air raid siren and be asked to go into a shelter, where hot cocoa will be served and wartime songs will be sung.

On Sunday, Ledbury people who remember the war will talk and answer questions.