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An Evacuee's Memory
My sixth and last billet as an evacuee during World War II, was at Bodrigy, Cadgwith. Bodrigy was being run almost like a boarding school with about 20 children there, and a matron to oversee us. We all went to school in Ruan Minor, and we would walk across the fields to school. I loved living in that area and did not want to return to London when the war was over. I remember we didn't get any coupons for sweets, but we would buy sweet malt bread from the baker and think we were in heaven. I remember the movies in the village hall, probably about once a month. If they were suitable we ...read more here
Contributed by anne vaughan
Cornwall memories
An Evacuee's Memory
My sixth and last billet as an evacuee during World War II, was at Bodrigy, Cadgwith. Bodrigy was being run almost like a boarding school with about 20 children there, and a matron to oversee us. We all went to school in Ruan Minor, and we would walk across the fields to school. I loved living in that area and did not want to return to London when the war was over. I remember we didn't get any coupons for sweets, but we would buy sweet malt bread from the baker and think we were in heaven. I remember the movies in the village hall, probably about once a month. If they were suitable we ...read more here
A memory of Ruan Minor contributed by anne vaughan
15 YEARS AT BARCLAY HOUSE
I remember coming to live at Barclay House in the September with my sister Rachel and my Mum and Dad. We moved from Sutton Coldfield because Dad no longer wanted to work as a garage mechanic for someone else, and he wanted to own his own garage. Mum was not at all keen as she was leaving her friends behind, but as a dutiful wife, she agreed to the move and we settled into village life, albeit in part of the hub of St. Keverne Square.
After Jack Hocking died in 1963, Dad demolished the corner cottage and had a 4,000 gallon tank hoisted into place, then had the corner shop built over it that stands to this day.
We ...read more here
A memory of St Keverne contributed by JULIE LITTLE
I Lived Here...
The large house to the right of the picture is called Barclay House, it's also St Keverne garage. We moved there in late 1979 and lived there for 3 years, having to leave it behind and move back to the north west due to family problems. We bought the house from Pat Johnson who had lived there with her husband.
Looking back now, it's heart breaking that we had to leave behind this idyllic, beautiful part of the country. I try to go back to visit at least once in every 5 years as a part of my heart will always belong in St Keverne Square.
Nowadays the square has parking lines painted all over it, but the building itself hasn't ...read more here
A memory of St Keverne contributed by marvin hall
Extracts From Ruan Minor & Cornwall books
Mullion takes its name from St Melaine, the 6th- century Bishop of Rennes, who excommunicated two British priests who went to preach on his patch. St Mellion, at the other end of the county, is also named after him.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
More correctly known as the Loe (meaning ‘pool’ in Cornish), this mile- long freshwater lake was formed in the 13th century when the River Cober became dammed by a sand and shingle bar - Loe Bar.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
Here we see almost the same view as picture No 53046, but how things have changed. Telegraph poles, road signs and the car indicate the communication revolution. There is also a plethora of tobacco advertising - Capstan, Craven ‘A’, Players and Senior Service - which would not be seen today.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
Livestock in a Cornish village is not unusual, but Gweek now has some rather unusual mammalian residents. Just down the river is the internationally famous seal sanctuary, founded in the 1950s by midlander Ken Jones to take care of sick, injured or orphaned seals.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
The water channels between pavement and road, so characteristic of Helston’s streets, are known as kennels, probably derived from the Cornish word ‘gannel’; this in turn is a corruption of the English ‘channel’. It makes you wonder why they didn’t just stick with the original word.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".