We came across an old red phone box in the middle of nowhere. The red paint has since faded, and is now a pale blue. We have no idea why it was there. It was a strange place for one to be unless this was an old station, or if this was the main phone box for forder / Antony Passage? It wasn't in someones garden, so we just don't know why it was here, or why it was labelled with Tavistock Hospital?
A Cornish Wartime Christmas 1942 - Ring Those Bells - Part 4
A four-part look at what Christmas was like in 1942 - the fourth wartime Christmas of the Second World War and one when the people of Britain were encouraged by the ringing of church bells. Using archive photos, old newspaper clippings, newsreel footage, old Christmas cards and postcards, old songs and sound recordings this video-book style presentation gives a snapshot of the festivities in Cornwall.
Part Four starts with a brief look at the arrival of the Americans. It then continues on the A-Z tour of the county featuring the festivities in town and village. It visits: Q - Quethiock R - Redgate/Redruth/Rilla Mill S - St Agnes/St Austell/St Breward/St Cleer/St Columb Major/St Day/St Dennis/St Erth/St Germans/St Ive/St Ives/ St Just/St Keverne/St Mellion/St Minver/St Neot/St Pinnock/St Stephen in Brannel/Saltash/Sancreed/Silverwell T - Taphouse/Three Burrows/Threemilestone/Tintagel/Trebullett/Tregony/Treleigh/Trevelmond/Trewidland/Truro/Tuckingmill/Twelveheads W - Wadebridge X - Y - Z - Part Four concludes with a look at two of the big cinema releases of 1942.
A list of historical sources and music credits are given at the end of Part Four.
Today we take so much for granted. This video is made to honour the generation who sacrificed so much so we could live in freedom and celebrate Christmas in peace.
If you have any photos of a Cornish wartime Christmas, or have a story to tell, please leave a comment.
Make sure you have watched the first three parts, and if you have not yet seen A Cornish Wartime Christmas 1939, 1940 and 1941 they are worth checking out. If you like a good wartime novel then check out No Small Stir available on Amazon, Ebay and at all good bookshops. It is set in Cornwall during the invasion summer of 1940.