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We were bombed a few times around St. Just and when we lived in Carnyorth I remember one in particular. We put a little table in the corner of the room and I was in the cupboard. When the whistling bomb came down I remember that my mother and grandmother were under the table. There was an explosion and the next day I found out that the bomb had come down in Lanivet(?) between Lower Trewellard (?) and Roscarnon (?) farm.

Another time, Botallack mine was bombed because they thought it was a factory. They just missed the mine chimney but the two pits can still be seen today. Holmans factory was bombed but that plane, a night fighter, was shot down by spitfires and crashed at St. Just. We went up there the following day because apparantly one of the aircrew's flying boots had come off and gone through the window of Trellew House and landed on the lady's bed. When we actually got there the boot and the dummy bomb were out in the garden being guarded by a man from the Home Guard. The Home Guard man let us look at the boot and the bomb but we were not allowed to touch. I recollect that there seemed to be blood on the front of the house where possibly the wall had been hit but I don't know for certain if that's correct. Others seem to remember it as well so perhaps it is. Sad really. I didn't get anything from that incident but we got bullets from the firing range at Wheal Castle Point. They are still polished up and in a drawer and we have some canon shells from somewhere.

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