- Contributed by听
- cornwallcsv
- People in story:听
- Ken Olds
- Location of story:听
- St. Just, Cornwall.
- Article ID:听
- A6758625
- Contributed on:听
- 07 November 2005
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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The headmaster at Carnyorth School was a nice enough chap called Mr. Vinnicombe and he was called up early on in the war in about 1940. He survived the war and came back in 1946. He was a Devonian and was alive until up to a few years ago. After his retirement he was president of the Devon Branch of the Ramblers Association.
As infants we had a teacher who was a little aggressive called Miss Gatrell from Rose Valley. I don't doubt she was a good teacher but she made adverse comments about the evacuees. She didn't think much of us and she thought even less of the evacuees when it came to learning skills. She walked forth and back from Rose valley, near Morvah, every day and was always there before us in the morning and after us in the evening. If the weather was bad we had no excuse for staying off school even if we lived two miles away.
We had a number of evacuee teachers who taught us all during the war and they were pleasant enough, certainly more easy going than Miss Gatrell!
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