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How Folkestone took in 120,000 Belgian refugees
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How Folkestone took in 120,000 Belgian refugees
How Folkestone took in 120,000 Belgian refugees
25 February 2019
Dr Christophe Declercq (UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society) talks about the influx of 120,000 Belgian refugees – including his own grandfather – into Folkestone in 1914.
Listen: BBC Two’s ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ (from 2 mins 22 secs)
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