Three childhood friends who survived the Second World War together have been reunited after 70 years apart. With the war coming to an end in 1945, brothers Sydney and Bernard Baker waved goodbye to their adopted home on Pwllygath Street near Bridgend, Wales - and their dear friend Doris Hayball. Along with their other brother Alan, they returned to the family home in Stamford Hill, London which they had been evacuated from five years earlier. Now thanks to a chance meeting with a couple from the town in Gran Canaria, the pair have rekindled that friendship with their fellow wartime survivor on the same Welsh street they left behind.
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In 1945, brothers returned to London after being evacuated five years prior
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Yesterday they went back to the Welsh street that took them in during WW2
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84-year-old Bernard Baker and brother Sydney, 80, met up with old friends
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One of them, Doris Hayball, remembers the day they arrived in Kenfig Hill
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The pair and brother Alan were wearing gas masks and carrying suit cases
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They were all homed separately before kind couple adopted three brothers
Even though the brothers shared two single beds pushed together in a box room for five years, Bernard and Sydney remember their stay in @placeholder fondly.