Headland Hotel 1938, Coverack
Headland Hotel 1938, Coverack Ref: 88569
Memories of Headland Hotel 1938, Coverack
Working at The Headland Hotel
While still at Helston Grammar School, I worked at the Headland Hotel during one summer. Pickles was the manager, he was a tyrant but I seemed to get the better of him. I wrecked the lawn-mower running over a rock while pushing it up and down those front lawns in the picture, he tried to make me pay for it out of my £4 10/- a week pay! I refused.
I fell in love with Margaret from Quinton who was working the summer to practice the cooking skills she had learned in Birmingham Catering School. It was a wonderful summer working in the garden, Pickles made us all take part in and help out at the Coverack Carnival.
The gardener teased me saying I was the darkest horse he had ever known and that I had stolen the best looking woman (Margaret) for many a mile, from under the noses of all interested parties.
Early mornings, I polished any shoes left out by guests, had a cup... Read more
Coverack 1969
In 1969 I was 15 and quit school. I was hitch hiking and ended up in Coverack. I was drinking in the local pub, the Paris Hotel I think, when some construction guys offered me a job digging ditches and laying sewer pipes. It was summer, and the foreman had rented a field from a local farmer. He lived in a caravan and the rest of us had tents. The foreman was a six foot seven South African, and his crew were all Irish men. Every day after quitting work we went to the Paris and got drunk. These guys were crazy, but a lot of fun. Throughout the summer we picked up many tourist girls and took them to barn dances and rodeos in St Keverne. I have never been back since, but the memories are still fresh in my mind.
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