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This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clark on behalf of the author Ken Olds. His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The Trebah Garden Trust understand the site's terms and conditions.

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I heard the bombing at Tregeseal and I was very much aware of the bombs dropped between Lower Trewellard and Roscarnon or Botallack. A big rock, about six feet square, landed in the next field and I understand it took fourteen cart loads of stone to fill in the crater. To this day, after a dry period, you will probably see a dry patch in the middle of the field where the drainage is better. Three other bombs were dropped on the Botallack mine and two of the craters survive; the third one was destroyed by a landrover and bulldozers during the restoration to the Crowns Engine Houses.
I remember the aircraft going over our heads, machine gunning and leaving tracers. I feel a bit humiliated now because as the plane was going forth and back over our heads, we were under the kitchen table! It was fathers idea so I can blame him for what I have always thought of as a foolish idea but I didn't tell him that I didn't like the idea much. As the kitchen table was right by the window neither the table nor the window would stop the bullets. The table had a drawer with tea towels in it and I have always wondered what protection that would have been against machine gun fire. We would have been far better off standing up against a wall or somewhere alse. I always thought that and still do.

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