St Blazey, c.1930

Photo ref: S8501

I remember the Packhorse. We used to pass on the way to visit Auntie Bella & Uncle Leo on Tywardreath Highway. That was back in the late 1950's early 60's

My grandad was Tom and Nan was Doris. They lived at 29 Fore Street. Grandad died in 1979. nan died 2000.grandad was a milkman and nan worked in the laundry. They had four children, Rosemary,Dereck,Peter and Margaret. Both Derek and peter died aged32. Lovely men and my mother rosemary died in 1995 aged 61. aunty Margaret is the only surviving sibling who now lives in Spain with her husband les. I have lovely ...see more

I cannot remember Fowey Radio at St Blazey but can remember the radio shop in Fore Street and that was run by Mr Osborne. He also had a workshop off The Lawn where we used to take our accumulators to be charged as most radios in war time were battery driven. I can remember Rosemary Nutt and her brother Peter at the Grammar School at Fowey and can still picture Fowey Radio almost opposite the "Town Hall" where we held our annual school plays.

My father Charlie Nutt and his colleagues ran The Fowey Radio company which gradually set up small branches in several Cornish towns, one of these was St. Blazey. I think problems with staffing etc arose as a result of the Second World War after 1939 and eventually only two Fowey Radio shops remained - one at Fowey, where I lived until I was 18, and the other at Truro. Rosemary Freeman ( nee Nutt )