BY September of 1939, Britain was getting ready for war with Germany.
And that meant that many parents in big cities, including Glasgow, had to make the heartbreaking decision to send their children away to the country, far from the dangers of Luftwaffe bombing raids.
Our picture today shows some of them, their belongings in bags and suitcases as they waited to be found new homes.
This group of evacuees was the first to arrive in Perth, and others were sent as far afield as Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire.
It must have been a nerve-wracking experience to be sent to stay, often with strangers, far from home, and their faces betray a range of emotions from cheeky defiance to nervous anxiety.
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