Hedley Vingoe Trevorrow
1910 to 1984aged 74
Tin miner then shift boss, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, 1927 to 1971
- Born
- 28 November 1910, St Just in Penwith
- Died
- 30 July 1984, St Just in Penwith
The youngest, two years old when his father died and raised more by his sister Loveday than by anyone. He went to Geevor at sixteen and stayed forty four years. He was an air raid precautions warden in Penzance through the war, which took over seven hundred alerts and 867 bombs and killed sixteen people in the town. The Cornish half of this family descends from him, and he never once in his life met the half that descends from his brother Thomas.
Accomplishments
- Forty four years at Geevor Mine1927
From 1927 to 1971, the last nineteen as shift boss. Three generations of this family worked at Geevor because he did.
- Air raid precautions warden, Penzance, 1940 to 19451940
Penzance and the surrounding district had over 700 air-raid alerts between 1940 and 1945, took 867 bombs, and lost sixteen people, with about 48 houses destroyed and 157 seriously damaged.
- Fifty one years in the Pendeen chapel choir1949
He sang the bass solo at his own mother funeral in 1949 because nobody else would.
