We moved to Cornwall from Birmingham when I was six years old. I had already lived in Cockerham, Surbiton and Edgbaston before that and was to live in ten more addresses before Mr S and I had our first home together. These are all the beautiful (well, most of them) places that I grew up in with fields and lanes, creeks and the beach as my playgrounds. I was so very lucky. Click on any photo for the caption and detail.
Creek Vean, Feock
My little sister’s Christening party in the garden of Creek Vean
Path down to the beach
Creek Vean, Feock from the creekside
Fields nearby where we played
Looking down Pill Creek
Terraced garden where strawberries grew at Christmas!
Penwartha Green
Penwartha Green
Penwartha Green and gate
Stream at the bottom of the garden
The farm up the lane where I went every evening to ‘help’ milk the cows
My primary school, now a private home just across the road from Penwartha Green
Tywarnhale Road, Perranporth
This was my playground
View from the Liskey Hill caravan park where we lived one summer
12 Kirby Road , Malabar
52 Daniell Road, Truro
View of the Cathedral from Daniell Road The hills beyond were all green fields then.
Kelsey House, Chapel Hill, Truro
19 Treyew Road, now a Samaritans’ House
makagutu
January 4, 2015 at 8:05 pm
You were such a lucky kid, what a big playground you had!
All lovely places I see. You must have fond memories of them all I guess
babyjill7...Marilyn Griffin
January 4, 2015 at 1:55 pm
all lovely places to me…I imagine memories from all!
utesmile
January 4, 2015 at 12:25 pm
What lovely places and how it all changed…. your primary school looks a bit like Carn Brea school. How amazing it must be to live in a small school building… Somewhere when you drive form CArn Brea to Redruth there is a chapel on the left which was converted into a home… I would have loved that too.
flowerpot
January 4, 2015 at 11:18 am
I hardly moved at all until I was 17 but lovely to see where you lived Sally
janaline's world journey
January 4, 2015 at 10:33 am
Wow, you did move around a lot…but I am sure that it gave you a taste of all the diferent ways to live.
ladysighs
January 4, 2015 at 10:21 am
I love the stone path to the beach.
These pictures really show how much you love the green and beautiful outdoors around us.