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This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clark on behalf of the author Kenneth H. Rickard. It is an extract from a book he wrote in 2004 called 'St Dennis and Goss Moor', published by Halsgrove of Tiverton. They fully understand the site's terms and conditions.

Lots of surplus materials were collected from the general public in 1940 as part of the Government initiative to provide for the war effort. In rural areas such as Cornwall there was not much to contribute, probably due to the county's standard of living at the time; you could not give what you did not have. Apart from a few tin cans and the occasional old bicycle frame the contribution from Goss Moor(hamlet) was very small.
The tin cans were collected by the local council and stored in one of the old Royalton mine pits at Castle-an-Dinas. A desperate measure, enforced by the War Department in 1941, was the confiscation of all household and public metal gates and railings. They were removed, cut up and sent away to foundaries up country for use in the production of much needed war equipment

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