St Columb Major, Fore Street 1906
Photo ref: 56244
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Photo ref: 56244
Photo of St Columb Major, Fore Street 1906

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Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots. The corner of the imposing Town Hall is on the left, partly hiding the venerable slate-hung King's Arms at the point where Fore Street narrows further. A sign beyond the shop advertises an agency representing the Union Castle Steamship Co for South Africa, to which many Cornishmen emigrated.

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A Selection of Memories from St Columb Major

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My paternal grandmother, named in title, was born & lived in Bank Street in 1882, and so she would have been about 9 in this photo!
I have just came across a letter about my father (Matthew Fury) who was killed at St Columb during the Second World War, my father was with his regiment  219/46Light A.A Battery. R.A. The letter was sent to my grandmother in 1941 by my dad's Commanding Officer  (Major A. W. Smyllie) who was billleted at The Red Lion Hotel in 1941. My dad was an Ack-Ack Gunner, when the German aircraft came over dropping their ...see more