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At the outset of war Mawnan Smith, like Falmouth, had a manual telephone exchange. All numbers were just two digits. By the end of the war this rose to 3 digits. Driving at night was very hazardous. Not only were headlights reduced in intensity and directed to the ground, there were no reflective road signs. 鈥淐at鈥檚 Eyes鈥� had been introduced on a very few main roads. Huge numbers of pedestrians were knocked down and killed.

Because of the problems of importing timber many mature woodlands were cut down, including the area between Maenporth and Pennance Farm. I can remember Fox Stanton coming from Penryn to totally clear all the trees to take them to their sawmill. Today it is woodland again. The advent of the magnetic mine meant that ships had to be 鈥淒egaussed鈥�. This was done in the docks by passing wires around the hull. Just off our beach they laid cables on the seabed to detect if the process had been successful. Some years after the war the navy came back and asked if they could use our property and building again to carry out trials of new measuring equipment.

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