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'The Glass Mountain'

I remember going to Rilla Mill to see 'The Glass Mountain', I think it was Joan Fontayne. My grandmother lived in Bathpool, at Cockerels Rest with my grandfather and Charles Rice, plus dog. Charles and the dog used to walk to Rilla Mill every day to get the paper. My grandmother used to do tailoring and my grandfather worked at Harris's, down in Bathpool Village. We lived at Antony and must have got a bus so far as Upton Cross. From there we used to walk from Upton Cross, past Darley Ford up past Miss Harrisons and down past the chapel to my grandmothers. It must have been in the late 1940s, I really don't remember the date, but it was many years after that, in the 1970s, when I met a gentleman who delivered cakes to the shop which I was running and we got talking and he was evacuated to Rilla Mill, and he told me that he used to watch films in the hut too. Small world. I often wonder what happened to the Babb's Sleeps, Wiltons, Shannons, no doubt they too went to the hut to watch the films. Happy days.

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A memory of Rilla Mill in Cornwall shared on Saturday, 14th November 2009.

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RE: RE: 'The Glass Mountain'

I was born in Rilla Mill on 9 Sept 1946, my parents were Dorren and Perce Bleakman. I was born in the house called The Heaven, in the picture no R301003. My sisters Julie and Janet went to Upton Cross and Callington Schools. We also attended Linkinhorn School in 1951.

Comment from Jacqueline Woodhouse on Wednesday, 25th August 2010.

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