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Phil in Cornwall
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Kernow Connection: The Omaha Road
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day Kernow Connection, a Cornish focused show on internet radio station radiosoapbox.com, invited historian Phil Hadley to take them on a road trip from Bodmin, a town in Cornwall where about 2,000 American troops were stationed in World War Two through the sausage camp in the midst of Clay Country and down the route to the embarkation hards on the River Fal from where many of the troops set sail to land on the beach at Omaha on the 6th June 1944. In this moving programme find out about the entertainment the troops enjoyed, the donut dugout that supplied a taste of home, the large tented camp where they were sealed and secured prior to travelling t...
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Mevagissey D Day 80
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The short ceremony featuring the Mevagissey Ladies Choir and a group from the Mevagissey Male Choir held in Mevagissey to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and light the beacon. The auto-focus struggled in the fading light but enjoy this simple ceremony from the Cornish south coast. For details of my historical novels (paperback) set in Cornwall in WW2 or my factual eBooks about aspects...
Portreath in 1944
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A brief look at Portreath filmed in September 1944 with shots of Smuggler's Cottage at Bassett's Cove taken from the cinematic release The Rake's Progress which had its UK premiere in December 1945. The film was re-edited and released in the USA as Notorious Gentleman in 1946. There have been suggestions General de Gaulle's family stayed at Smugglers in the early years of the war. If you have a...
St Agnes Station & Goss Moor in 1944
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A brief and rare glimpse of St Agnes Station in September 1944 followed by shots of a train on the Newquay - Par branch line on Goss Mooor and a car on the A30 also filmed in September 1944. To find the details of the Cornwall Railways War Diary and my other books on Cornwall in World War Two check out www.philhadleypublications.com
Invasion Around St Austell Bay Part 2
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The summer of 1940 saw Britain facing invasion and thanks to Hitler's Directive No 16 Cornwall was in the forefront of the Nazi invasion plans. This video book looks at the defences that were prepared around St Austell Bay on the south Cornish coast and sees what remains of them today. This video has been reloaded due to UMG's worldwide ban on Anne Shelton's song I'll Be Seeing You which caused...
An Afternoon Around Par 2023
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A sunny afternoon in June 2023 capturing the trains at Par Station and several nearby locations.
Coombe Valley near Kilkhampton in 1944
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The Coombe Valley is a beautiful steep sided valley that runs from Kilkampton down to the sea at Duckpool in north Cornwall. In 1944 it was the subject of a Ministry of Information documentary called Cornish Valley. Here we look at the scenic shots of the valley from cameraman Peter Hennessey that show us Coombe Mill, Stowe Barton, Burridge Farm and Sanctuary Farm. While the valley looks peacef...
Chacewater in 1944
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Chacewater is a small village between Truro and Redruth. It 1944 it sat on the main A390 road and was chosen as a US Sausage Camp (O-F) as the troops marshalled and embarked for D-Day. Thus the camp which stretched from Scorrier through Chacewater and then turned up onto Kerley Hill was home to 2800 troops preparing to liberate Europe. Just up the road on the B3277 there was another sausage cam...
Stratton in 1944
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Stratton is an ancient town in north Cornwall. With footage taken from the Ministry of Information film Cornish Valley we have a very brief glimpse of Stratton (before road widening at Howell's Bridge in 1976) and its market in 1944. There's a good view of Spicer's Lane and of the men heading to the Tree Inn. With thanks to Tim Martindale for his help in identifying the location of the clips sh...
Duckpool in 1944
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A brief glimpse with footage from a 1944 Ministry of Information film of Duckpool, the beach at the mouth of the Coombe Valley in north Cornwall. The beach was defended by anti-tank obstacles in 1940 (some of which can still be found in the sand). It sits just below RAF Cleave, the WW2 Anti-Aircraft gunnery school and now the site of GCHQ Bude. The nearby cliffs were used by the US Rangers for ...
Sennen Cove in 1945
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A look at Sennen in June 1945 in original colour film shot by James McKinley, a US Naval photographer. From the minefield, to various pillboxes, the coastguard lookout at Pedn-men-du with its generator hut (no, it wasn't a pillbox!), air raid bomb damage and a distant glimpse of the RAF Domestic Camp, we see Sennen at its finest. For more on Sennen in World War Two check out my RUclips videos: ...
St Michael's Mount in 1940
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A glimpse of St Michael's Mount in 1940 from Marazion and from Newlyn is followed by footage of HMS Warspite grounded and wrecked off Prussia Cove in 1947 before the video ends with original colour footage of the Mount in 1953. HMS Warspite, launched at Devonport in 1913, had survived Jutland in WW1, Narvik, Calabria, Taranto, Cape Matapan, Crete, the Indian Ocean, the invasions of Sicily, Ital...
Lands End in 1940
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A look at England's most westerly tip during World War Two. The video starts in 1940 with film taken from a newsreel before moving to 1945 with rare footage of RAF Mark's Castle CHL17 - the Chain Home Low radar station. We then see Land's End in 1950 before ending with some original colour footage from 1953. For more on Cornwall in World War Two check out www.philhadleypublications.com
Where is it in 1944? Kilkhampton? Holsworthy? Somewhere else?
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Where is it in 1944? Kilkhampton? Holsworthy? Somewhere else?
Is that Coombe at 1:03?
Yes it is.
Very interesting video phil
Fake, saw someone with a smart phone.
Should have gone to Specsavers as it is genuine wartime footage!!
Was great and comforting to see the young chap at 2:30 skimming stones where I always do the same thing in that same spot with 75 years parting us. Thanks for sharing the video!
The simple joys of life never go out of fashion! Thanks for your comment.
What a posting? And all them Cornish Maids there. Lovely.
Beware the man going to St Ives - seven wives could beckon, to say nothing of the cats and kittens!!
Not WW2 but I enlisted into the RAF in 1982, and my first posting after training was to Portreath. I spent 3 years there. You can briefly see where I worked. The caption states it’s the domestic site. I was a Steward in the Combined Ranks Mess. The building has since been demolished.
Oh this is amazing
There is a glimpse in this film of FY19. Here she is fully open decked and no fore cabin. Is this the Tosher that I knew in the 1960's belonging to Chris Cloke which now is still to be seen in the harbour converted back again to an open boat and lying at moorings under a fitted canvas cover?
Could well be. FY19 launched in 1947. May need someone with more specific boat knowledge to confirm.
Memória da nossa Missionária Que Deus a tenha na sua glória.
Os seus ensinamentos ficaram grudados em mim. Louvado seja Yahweh que te enviou para Angola
Hey Phil, you were sat next to my camera bag :-)
Sweet. Small world!
there it is and i wish 6400 is steamed.
The railway ran at the bottom of my uncles cottage ( Scraesdon cottage ). all gone now a few 100 yeards from the fort .. in the 50s my uncle keep his pigs in the fort. I used to play with the officers sons who lived in the fort we went all over the fort
Thanks for sharing the memories. Did your relatives recall the Americans being at Tregantle in 1944?
My father had his first radar experience at the Jacka in August and September 1943. He was then transferred, with other radar personnel, to the Calcutta area for two years to deal with Japanese threats. He and his wife of 9 months spent their first-ever weeks of married life together in Treverbyn House in Veryan, along with other more rowdy RAF men who made life very tiresome. Thank you for your informative little video.
Thank you for sharing your parents' experience. Every little detail helps build up the picture of life at RAF Jacka during the war.
Excellent video mate and nice bit of history they're too I did go to that location the other day first time ever
Magic video m8
A fascinating history. Thanks for posting this. It'll give more meaning the next time I walk or cycle the trail.
The real and original Green Berets 🇬🇧
WW2 1939-1945.
Do you have any footage of scorrier by any chance?
No, sorry can't help you there. I am not aware of Scorrier appearing in any wartime M of I films, newsreels or feature films. If anyone knows different do let me know.
I’m very sorry for bothering you but might you have any of st Agnes or parish
No again, I am afraid. I would like to think in some military archive somewhere there must be film of Camp Cameron, the AA gunnery school but I've never seen any. Rest assured if I find any I'll post it on RUclips.
Thank you
Really good 👍
Amazing
Not shown in that film are some socket holes at the top of the footpath that goes down to the harbour from the lower part of the hill.Opposite the public footpath up the hill.Have you seen those?
If you are talking about the pathway down from Lighthouse Hill behind Harbour Terrace then yes I have.
Had they removed all the beach defences by 1944?
The scaffolding had been taken down, apart from the bits that were uncovered by storms about 10 years ago! The anti-tank wall around the other end of the beach was still there. You can still find a couple of sections of it in the car park on the stream side. The vertical rail slots on the slipway at Smugglers were still there in 2012. See my video Invasion at Portreath for more detail ruclips.net/video/2Tmblkac4Vc/видео.htmlsi=_nJHqM2lMflSza3C
A great video phil
This is very interesting thank you
Before parking machines ,double yellow lines..and DFL’s and Band Q..
Excellent video phil
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excelente video, saludos desde chile . Cómo realizan el cruce con la tirolesa?
King George VI did observe Operation Splint (or he visited the ships shortly after Operation Splint and prior to the Invasion of Normandy)! I have done extensive research on my grandfather's service aboard LST-286, and I came across the following entry in the May 1944 War Diary of LST Group THIRTY: "(3) On May 25, 1944 at 1030 British Summer Time, His Majesty King George VI inspected the U.S. Landing Craft at Portland. He was accompanied by Admiral Ramsay, R.N., Rear Admiral Kirk, Rear Admiral Hall, and Rear Admiral Wilkes of the U.S. Navy. King George and his party inspected the LST 357, and reviewed the crew at quarters. Following this inspection, the King toured the Portland Harbor and observed the ships present." P.S. -- my grandfather is featured in your video! The first ship featured in your video is LST-286. I can't thank you enough for putting together this footage.
Hi. Thanks for your comment. I think it more likely the King visited ships after Splint. I have found no confirmation of his presence, although as the video says his surgeon was there. The date of the visit you cite is 6 weeks+ after Splint. Both the King and Winston Churchill wanted to go to Normandy on D-Day but the military wouldn't let the King and he talked Churchill out of it as the risks were too high, so morale boosting visits prior to sailing is what they had to make do with, though both got across the Channel as soon as they could afterwards Churchill managing it on 12th June. Great your grandfather is featured in the video and glad you could pick him out. I would love to hear more of his time in Cornwall prior to D-Day. If you can tell me more find the link for my website where there's a contact page where we can communicate more easily.
Those first cottages my Dad's family lived there
Thanks for sharing. Can you add any more detail about Cadgwith in the war?
oh no my dads grannie (surname "Jane") lived mid 1800s they then left for usa for mining but they returned later as my grandad was christened in Ruan aged 10...
Followed a link from Facebook. I'd forgotten how dreadful this song was 💩
Love this.
I live in Mullion..
This was beautiful to watch. I can vividly remember holidaying as a young child where we stayed in a little cottage in a narrow road leading to a cobbled slipway onto the beach. I remember the smell of bread baking in the street. But I didn’t know where it was until I saw a news item about the storm of 2014 and the reporter was standing on that slipway to a beach… Gorran Haven! I have many happy memories of that holiday and watching this wonderful montage brought them all back. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing the memory. It sounds as if you stayed in either Church Street (the steep hill up from the entrance to the beach) or in Rattle Street (a narrow cobbled street coming off Church Street not wide enough for cars). The south-easterly storms usually cause interesting scenes at Gorran Haven!
youtube.com/@twowheelexploration9228?si=r4Fehzb62FDXzHyc Here's a link to my Channel I have done many videos relating to WW2 history in Cornwall. Would be great to oneday work together. Best wishes.
Yes I have watched a number of your videos. Keep up the good work.
@PhilsTeleTime Thankyou mate.
Great vid. My Grandmother's relations were killed at the house in Lister Street. She often told me that her and her Mother were envited for tea there that night but as a child my Gran didn't want to go. So they didn't go luckily
Thank you for sharing the family story. While every loss of life is tragic it could have been so much worse. There were a lot of 'narrow escapes' that day. So thanks for sharing your grandmother's account.
@@PhilsTeleTime this is the first time I've heard about this event from anyone other than my Gran. I never doubted her at all. It's a real revelation to hear more about it in detail. Thanks
Dear Phil Thanks So Much for recording all of this with such thoughtful precision and HUGE EFFORT… I also live in Cornwall ( Polruan) and you have educated ,enlightened and enriched my experience ….there’s no better legacy to impart …The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance ….History is the Vehicle of Foresight .
Thanks again for your kind words. I trust you've found the one in the series that deals with Polruan and the east side of the Fowey Estuary!
Many thanks indeed
Thank You So Much for showing us all this FASCINATING History of an area I have lived in for many years and with a boat have explored The River Fowey….Gosh …your attention to detail together with the background music is EXEMPLARY…WELL Done for METICULOUS research and graphics … FULL Marks ALL ROUND I SAY.
Thank you for your kind words. I believe good history has to be well researched and well communicated, so thanks for your appreciation. Glad you enjoyed the video. Try the novel No Small Stir set in the same area in 1940. I think you'd enjoy that too.
This was needed….well done
My Dad was in 5th Commandos after Dunkirk. He was based in Falmouth.
Precioso video
My Mum was evacuated to Mullion from London during WW2. Sadly she passed away a couple of weeks ago but she always had a place for Mullion in her heart.
I am sorry for your recent loss, but thank you for sharing your family connection to Mullion. If you are able to provide any more details on her wartime experience I'd be interested to hear. I can always be contacted through my website if you didn't want to post publicly here.
I had the great privilege of meeting Sister Ruth in 2007, I completed primary education at the Camundambala school where she was responsible for it, today I have a degree in Computer Engineering. It was an irreparable loss for us
Wow, what a testimony. She would be thrilled at your success, and praying you would know and walk with the Saviour who sent her to Angola in 1982 and who called her home to glory in 2017.
What a lovely clip and in colour too. I lived in Polperro for ten years, it will always be my spiritual home.
@FishingCanterbury 11 years ago Good Video.
@lyndonallen4359 3 years ago You are incorrect on your Eastern pill box at charlestown, there was a large lamp in that shed, used to illuminate the breakwater at night for shipping purposes, the concrete plinth you said was where the home guard shed was is also incorrect, that is the remains of an ice cream shop, the Eastern pill box was at the top of the 1st field, still there today but compl buried, lyndon Allen, Charlestown history group
@PhilsTeleTime 3 years ago Thanks for the correction. Always willing to learn. Are there any photos of the eastern pillbox?
@jrybialek 6 years ago Phil. Do you know what the two iron pipes set in the ground, either side of the road, Mount Charles side of the iron bridge on Holmbush Road? Were they used for a WW2 roadblock? If you go my Facebook page, Alex Rybialek, and look in my Timeline photo album you can see photos of them. I hope you know the answer to this puzzle. Cheers.
Old sewer ventilation pipe! You can find an almost intact one on Tregonissey Road outside the house between the school and the college. So probably older than WW2 but not part of any roadblock.
@2DFlightSim 9 years ago Really interesting stuff thanks for making this video. I live in Australia now,
@CelticSaint 11 years ago Another brilliant video. Many thanks. Those pill boxes would make a cracking place to lay low for a while, should the need arise!