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Edward Moyle
This bridge shop for many years was run by my great uncle Edward Moyle who lived in Sunnyside, Gweek.
Memories of Cornwall
B & B And Evening Meal in A Constantine Home
I believe I was about 12 years old when I stayed with my parents in a bed and breakfast house in Constantine that also did an evening meal. They were a beautiful Cornish couple and had a water pump outside the house that my father accidentaly knocked over when reversing his Humber Hawk car. I vividly remember the lady of the house making traditional Cornish pasties for tea one evening and they were the future blueprint for me for all pasties, consequently I have never tasted anything as good since. I now live in Australia but have recently re-visited the Cornish Riviera and tried without success to taste a pastie as good as the one I had made by a lovely lady in Constantine. I would love to know the name of the couple and their B & B which I'm sure has long been turned into a holiday cottage.
Jeux Sans Frontiers
Does anyone remember Jeux Sans Frontiers being organised by Helston Rotary (I think) and held in and on Coronation Lake.
I attended Helston Grammar School during the 60s and lived with my parents Prisk and Phyllis Dale at The Gables Filling Station Trevenen.
Early School Days
Mr Richard lived here at the fish and chip shop. Mr Richard was also the PE teacher at Helston Secondary Modern School, Penrose Road. We use to call in to the chip shop on our way home from Scouts at Lowertown. I lived at 89 Maneauge Street, next door to where the Americans had there garages, and when I was younger I would march up and down with my toy gun pretending to be on guard with our American friends. They use to make doughnuts in the garage with a fire in an old oil drum where they placed another container with oil in to cook the doughnuts.
Sundays
This is the view which I use to see on Sunday mornings when my father and I would walk from the top of Maneauge Street along Bullock Lane to the back entrance of the Blue Anchor. I was allowed to play skittles with the landlord's sons whilst father had a few drinks. After we would walk home not forgetting my jar of barm from the top of the brew, I had one spoonful every morning. It was suppose to stop you from getting a spotty face and also kept your bowels open.
Ancestors Village Church
I don't have any memories but tracing my family tree I have discovered that a branch of my family came from Manaccan, Bowchers and Urens. So its nice to see what the church was like.
Carol
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