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An Evacuee's Memory
My sixth and last billet as an evacuee during World War II, was at Bodrigy, Cadgwith. Bodrigy was being run almost like a boarding school with about 20 children there, and a matron to oversee us. We all went to school in Ruan Minor, and we would walk across the fields to school. I loved living in that area and did not want to return to London when the war was over. I remember we didn't get any coupons for sweets, but we would buy sweet malt bread from the baker and think we were in heaven. I remember the movies in the village hall, probably about once a month. If they were suitable we ...read more here
Contributed by anne vaughan
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An Evacuee's Memory
My sixth and last billet as an evacuee during World War II, was at Bodrigy, Cadgwith. Bodrigy was being run almost like a boarding school with about 20 children there, and a matron to oversee us. We all went to school in Ruan Minor, and we would walk across the fields to school. I loved living in that area and did not want to return to London when the war was over. I remember we didn't get any coupons for sweets, but we would buy sweet malt bread from the baker and think we were in heaven. I remember the movies in the village hall, probably about once a month. If they were suitable we ...read more here
A memory of Ruan Minor contributed by anne vaughan
Many Friends
We moved to Cadgwith in 1979, the best move of our lives, everyone was so friendly. Our two boys grew up there and had the time of their lives fishing and playing on the beach. We were sad to leave in 1987 but will never forget Cadgwith. Steve and Shiela Thornton.
A memory of Cadgwith contributed by steve thornton
Kennack
I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later.
My memories are so many, borrowing beach donkeys and going off on safaris, making dens, rope swings across rivers. Getting lunch out of the hedge, black berries and toejam etc.
Memories of running around the costal path to Cadgwith, walking to the Draw Bar. boat trips on the Hairy Fairy. Floral day, Carn Brae pool when it was first built, Horse and Jockey, pastrys. Clotted cream eaten right from tub with fingers - no jam or scone. Swimming ...read more here
Extracts From Ruan Minor & Cornwall books
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".
The water channels
between pavement and
road, so characteristic of
Helston’s streets, are known
as kennels, probably
derived from the Cornish
word ‘gannel’; this in turn is
a corruption of the English
‘channel’. It makes you
wonder why they didn’t just
stick with the original word.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".