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- parkside-community
- People in story:听
- Alan Sankey
- Location of story:听
- Newquay, Cornwall
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7537656
- Contributed on:听
- 05 December 2005
I was evacuated to Cornwall in 1940 because the school at which my father taught moved there: it was thought that a German invasion might come to the East- Counties. The school moved to two holiday hotels overlooking the sea- The Bristol Channel- when convoys used to pass on the horizon to and from Bristol.
There were also two aerodromes, at St Eval and St Mawgan, where experimental Spit Fires and whirl winds were stature. Sadly, on one occasion we saw an aircraft crash into the sea.
One day in June 1944 we saw a very strange convoy going down the Bristol Channel. Apart from the usual escorting warships there were tugs pulling huge cube shaped objects. Later we realised we had seen the Mulberry Harbour being towed to Arromanches for the invasion of Normandy.
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