Cornwall

W.L.A

I received my call up papers for the Women's Land Army on my 18th Birthday on August 11th 1943 and went...

Cornwall's Gas Cleansing Unit

The leader was a Mr Kernick, and there were five young women: Eileen and Valerie Noble, myself, the...

Life as a Teacher during WW2 Part 3

It reminds me of my two Youth Lieutenants, Gareth and John Newton who helped me run the Youth Club at...

Guarding Tintagel Church

Early in 1945 my father in law Cecil Jory and his Tintagel friend Dennis Hancock returned from the D Day...

What I Did During the War.

In 1943 we went every where, to the Far East, to the top end of Ireland, Greenland, America, Spain, Brazil...

The Boarding School Evacuee: Relative Safety in Cornwall

It was intended that I should be a weekly boarder at a local boarding school, but my grandfather, who had...

Donald Delves' War, Part 10 : Postscript, Home & HMS Warspite "The Grand Old Lady"

On 23rd April 1947, my friend HMS Warspite "The Grand Old Lady" broke her tow and came ashore at...

Three In A Bed in Cornwall

When I was 12 I went with my younger sister Audrey and younger brother John leaving my parents in London....

Never going hungry

Mrs Roberts our neghbour was a Diabetic so she gave her sugar coupons to Mum in exchange for fresh eggs...

The Youngest Evacuees

I remember my Mother telling me how after hours of travelling to Clevedon in Somerset by steam train she...

Life as a Teacher during WW2 Part 2

Canterbury School came to the St Austell area at the suggestion of Gerald Knight, organist at Canterbury...

Bo Peep and Blisters

I was a member of the Women's Land Army from March 1942, staying in hostels and farms in the old...

Ken's story

We traveled from bristol to Truro by train, there was lots of other children being evacuated to cornwall......

Alan’s Story - Dorothy Williamson -nee Threlfall

When my brother was home on leave, during the height of the war I well remember him saying that the pilots...

My family's story at Looe & Par

My father Paul Quick Stevens was a wooden shipwright, he wanted to join the Navy but his work was a...

Luftwaffe Attack on St.Ives

It was a fine day as I dug around in the sand when suddenly we heard an aircraft coming in low from...

A Rural Railwayman's War

Fred worked at the local station, which served both the Southern and Western Railways... A Bofors gun...

Hotel life in the War

The Helford River filled up with huge strange structures which we later found were to become Mulberry...

The Ups and Downs of an Evacuee

I was born in Paddington, West London and lived there till the Second World War when I was evacuated with...

Living with the Vicar

I was evacuated to a place called Linkinhorne near Callington, Cornwall... Many hours later I was in a...

Portreath Coasters

At the start of the 2nd World War, I was Master of a Coasting Vessel, the SS Islesman, trading out of...

A trip in a D Day Landing Craft

The weather was so perfect that our whole evacuated family, including aunts and cousins, complete with...

My Childhood: Cornwall and Surrey

We spent alternate periods in Port Isaac and Tadworth as the war ebbed and flowed but we were in the middle...

St Just: Evacuees from Walthamstow

I was evacuated with my older brother at the start of the war from Walthamstowto St Just-in Penwith which...

Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy

The Americans were based in Cornwall and many of them worked at “Nickle's Garage” at the...

The Land Army

I joined the Womans Land Army on 16th August l943,just 18 and was sent to a new hostel on the Lord...