Boyhood Days 1930 To 1945

A Memory of Little Bosullow.

I was born on the 5th February 1930 in the cottage known as Sunnyside, Little Polgooth, the home of my grandparents William and Edith Rundle. Grandfather, was a one-time tin miner at South Polgooth mine, 5 Turnings, before going to the mines in South Africa and America. In my boyhood, he was the local 'roadman' for Cornwall County Council, paring roadside hedges and cleaning drains etc.. My home was at Coyte cottage, St. Mewan and I attended St. Mewan School. I had an older brother, and we loved to explore the lanes of Lefesant and Levalsa. It seemed to me as a boy, that nearly everyone living on Fiddler May's hill was called either Coon, Coombe or Barneycoat. Before moving to Saltash in 1945 my father, Ed Rundle was a gardener at Trewhiddle, and then for Mr George Hicks of St. Austell Brewery. I recall, that next door to my granparents lived a Mrs Matta, and I believe up the lane going to Polgooth, lived a Blacksmith.

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