Magdalene Public Elementary School, Hardcastle Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim

Magdalene Public Elementary Junior School was one of many across the city of Belfast, Co. Antrim to act as an evacuation centre prior to the Belfast Blitz.

Magdalene Public Elementary

1 Hardcastle Street

Belfast

Co. Antrim

United Kingdom

On 4th July 1940, the Belfast Newsletter listed Magdalene Public Elementary Junior School as a place from where unregistered children would be evacuated on Monday 8th July 1940.

This was part of an attempt to evacuate young people from Belfast a year before the Blitz.