The Day They Had Dreamed About - A mother and her Two evacuated children rush to greet each other, with delight expressed in their beaming faces.The Mayor of Saffron Walden, essex yesterday invited hundreds of parents, mostly from Tottenham, North London, to a tea party in the town hall and corn exchange, at which they could meet those who are billeting their children, and talk things over Nine large Motor-coaches and a long line of cars carried more than 500 parents to the party. October 23, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).