 East Dundry Lane in the 1920s was the first to be tarred into the hamlet.Bristol, with its centre only 6 kilometres away, had mains water, electricity, gas, dial telephones and mains drainage by the 1930s – but the Second World War and its ten years of ensuing austerity stopped all extension of these facilities to places such as East Dundry.A week or so before war was declared, several London children were evacuated to East Dundry