Coastguard Cottages Mawgan Porth

A Memory of Mawgan Porth.

The old coastguard cottages at Mawgan Porth were leased by Mrs Kate Knight and her youngest daughter Winifred in about 1920 from Col Williams of Carnanton at St Mawgan. They ran a tearoom and let two of the cottages whilst living in the third one. When Win married Norman Carthew in 1938 they also lived in the cottages. As children we had a wonderful life with the whole beach as our playground. We climbed cliffs, dammed the river and made rafts to ride on the river. As children the war did not affect us as it did children further up the country, we were very fortunate. Mrs Knight died in 1969. Win died in 1992 in Australia where three of her children now live.
Kate Knight's husband was the last coastguard at Mawgan Porth