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White Marguerites

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Mrs. Phyllis Blewit
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St. Erth Station
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A5321828
Contributed on:听
25 August 2005

This story has been written onto the 大象传媒 People's War Site by CSV Storygatherer, Ann Toomey, on behalf of Mrs. Phyllis Blewit, who fully understands the terms and conditions of the site.

As a little girl of 9, I lived at St Erth Station. I can remember the Americans being there, they were building barges for Hayle Wharf. They used to go into the village shop which was next to the cottage where we lived - it was owned by a Mr. Gawl - the Americans used to give us gum and sweets.

There was a plane crashed over near the school and all the crew were rescued.

My father was a Special Constable at St Erth - he had a lovely garden in which were a lovely row of White Marguerites - one day he said "I am going to cut down the marguerites"- when asked why- he said that if the planes saw them, then they could be used as a target to bomb the station.

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