Cornwall

Camouflaging Aerodromes

He travelled to various parts of the country, camouflaging different aerodromes and other vulnerable sites....

Memories of a wartime child

Back in London I remember playing in the bomb rubble watching the V1s falling from the sky: "It's...

Evacuated to Lizard Town

These 3 girls happened to be walking the cliffs just as a ship's lifeboat came in towards the shore at...

Romance over pickled onions

If I didn't give up my house to Czech officers and their wives officials would have bilited troops in...

Lovely Surprise - Banana's

Auntie Ruth came down from Plymouth after the war to give us a "lovely surprise - banana's"!.....

Parachute Landing in Tehidy Wood

When a parachute suddenly landed at Three Bargate. I saw a man land in the wood and ran to tell my mother...

Crossing the River Fowey for an Orange

So when they had Oranges in Fowey people who had been shopping came back telling us "Oranges are...

William Leslie Bolitho's Ration book

He was William Leslie Bolitho from Glenview, Penryn....

Skylarks in Cornwall

A group of evacuees from London arrived, unannounced, at Bodmin station... Suddenly, one of the children...

Training at Perranporth in 1942

At Perranporth in Cornwall, 1942, a young pilot who had escaped from Germany where he had been a prisoner...

Bomb in the Field

When the bomb dropped the cows were so scared that when we finally caught up with them they were 2 miles...

Truro Home Guard

This photograph was given to me, Carolyn Hendra by my father, John Hendra, from Feock. In the picture you...

Wartime Memories of Nanstallon Halt

My father, William Cecil Mayne, but known to everyone as Sydney, was the signalman at Nanstallon for over...

Schleswig Holstein Visit to Falmouth 1938

For most people the war in Falmouth started in 1939 but for the people of Falmouth it started in 1938 when...

Horticulture at the Nansidwell Hotel, Falmouth

With the Dutch Naval College at nearby Enys, we had many Dutch sailors to visit or stay. One night the Home...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Lend-Lease Tractors

Two of these tractors were supplied to farmers in the locality, one to Viv Smale of Goss Moor and the other...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Lend-Lease Tractors

Two of these tractors were supplied to farmers in the locality, one to Viv Smale of Goss Moor and the other...

Farmers in the Cornish Home Guard

My post was at Porth near Newquay, the station was in a private garage near the entrance to Porth Beach....

Denis's Helford Memories

His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. My...

Schleswig Holstein Football Match

When the Germans were in Falmouth we entertained them royally and one of the entertainments was a football...

Pentewan

I was 6 when the war started and after the blitz we evacuated to Pentewan a little village just outside St...

Aircraft bogged down in Cornwall

Farmland at St Eval and St Mawgan was being taken for the new aerodromes and the land used for crops...

The Canterbury Boys in Cornwall

In 1940 Mr Pear decided that it was time to evacuate the boys from Canterbury, St Edmund's Junior...

St Eval Airfield and St Merryn Airfield

Dad farmed Trerair Farm St Eval which was between St Merryn Airfield and St Eval Airfield....

German pilot crashes near Primative Chapel

It missed Primative Chapel and crashed in "gelly", there was nothing left of the plane....

An Evacuee in Cornwall - photograph

An Evacuee in Cornwall - photograph...