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My father Paul Quick Stevens was a wooden shipwright, he wanted to join the Navy but his work was a reserved occupation, so he went to Looe and worked on MTB Boats for Frank Curtes, repairing them when they had damage going over mines at high speed.
After a time (the dates I am not sure about) they moved to Par where they started to build wooden mine sweepers and he was a foreman for over 1000 men in building 13 mine sweepers from start to finish at different stages.
If I can remember correctly I was 11 years old and we came from St.Ives.
One day my mother went to the corner shop, I am not sure but lets say shop no.1 where we lived above no.3. I came down the stairs from the flat and reaching the front door wa blown up the passage to the back door and back again to the front door. The door was open so I went to get mum and found that a bungalow on the opposite corner from no.1 had been bombed. On going to no.1 I found all the glass was broken, my mother was hiding in the shop. All the goods on the shelves were now on the floor and as I have written this bomb had only been across the road from the shop and after all of this only one man was killed and I had a cut leg.
It seems this German airoplane had come over to drop this bomb on the ship yard released it too late for the boats and hit the Council houses, killing only one Cornishmen.
So after this excitment, mother moved herself, my brother and myself back to St.Ives father went into lodgings.

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