 Due to concerns about potential air raids on Brighton during the Blitz, the charity evacuated its operation from Brighton to the town of Church Stretton, Shropshire, where it occupied the Long Mynd Hotel and other buildings, setting up an industrial training centre and a hospital.By 1946, the year it returned to Brighton, the charity cared for over 2,000 blind ex-Service personnel.The charity's centre at Brighton was used as an eye hospital during the war.