Being an account of the Second World War and its aftermath as it affected the small seaside town of St. Ives and a young Cornish boy who lived there.
St. Ives born Peter Murrish was for many years a political agent and a town councilor He became the town’s first Chairman of the St. Ives Chamber of Trade. He moved to the Isles of Scilly in 1985 where he headed an Environmental Trust for the Duchy of Cornwall. On his retirement he moved back to St. Ives and became the Chairman of the St. Ives Trust, in which position he supported the setting up of the Archive Study Centre under the Trust’s wing. Peter Murrish became the expert on all aspects of the second world war, as a result of which he wrote his often amusing reminiscences about being a young boy in St. Ives in those years. He died in 2002.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre, 1997. 21cm. x 30cm. 58 pages Combed and bound A4
