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Uren Genealogy
My wife and I visited St Day in September 13th 2004 to find where my Greatgrandparents lived. We found the house where GreatGrandmother died - 24 Scorrier Street. After searching a lot of St Day for anyone who might have know of either of them, we did find a couple, the gent was a nephew of a lady that was a good friend of my GreatGrandmother. They showed us some of my Grandparents furniture that was left to them in their will. They also sat down with us and talked about my GreatGrandMother. We wanted to talk more but had a cab picking us up in a hour. They told us were she lived and died, so I took a picture ...read more here
Contributed by Raymond Uren
Evacuee Memory
My brother Bryan and I were evacuated to St. Day in 1940 and I spent three happy years there before reluctantly returning to London in 1943. We lived with Mr. and Mrs. Batty who ran a Hardware Shop on the corner of Fore Street. Mr Batty was, during my stay, Chairman of the Camborne and Redruth Urban District Council, We attended St. Day School, Headmaster Mr. Blewitt, teachers Mr. Webster and Miss Opie. The Batty family had a small farm in the village run by a family member, Maude Roper. My after school duties were numerous, delivering charged Accumulators to homes as far away as Scorrier, walking both ways, collecting potato peelings etc. from local homes to be mixed with feed ...read more here
Contributed by Gerard Mos
Cornwall memories
Uren Genealogy
My wife and I visited St Day in September 13th 2004 to find where my Greatgrandparents lived. We found the house where GreatGrandmother died - 24 Scorrier Street. After searching a lot of St Day for anyone who might have know of either of them, we did find a couple, the gent was a nephew of a lady that was a good friend of my GreatGrandmother. They showed us some of my Grandparents furniture that was left to them in their will. They also sat down with us and talked about my GreatGrandMother. We wanted to talk more but had a cab picking us up in a hour. They told us were she lived and died, so I took a picture ...read more here
A memory of St Day contributed by Raymond Uren
Evacuee Memory
My brother Bryan and I were evacuated to St. Day in 1940 and I spent three happy years there before reluctantly returning to London in 1943. We lived with Mr. and Mrs. Batty who ran a Hardware Shop on the corner of Fore Street. Mr Batty was, during my stay, Chairman of the Camborne and Redruth Urban District Council, We attended St. Day School, Headmaster Mr. Blewitt, teachers Mr. Webster and Miss Opie. The Batty family had a small farm in the village run by a family member, Maude Roper. My after school duties were numerous, delivering charged Accumulators to homes as far away as Scorrier, walking both ways, collecting potato peelings etc. from local homes to be mixed with feed ...read more here
A memory of St Day contributed by Gerard Mos
Extracts From St Day & Cornwall books
This interesting mining village, almost a town, developed in the 19th century close to the great copper mines of Consolidated and United Downs. Terraces of miners’ houses form a triangle in Fore, Scorrier and Telegraph Streets. Here in Fore Street the shops include the post office and a hairdresser. A parked motor bike and sidecar is the only traffic.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
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".