Ploughing up unusual objects is not all that uncommon for farmers but we all got a bit of a shock when, out cultivating, we upturned a World War II aeriel bomb in Scraggs field. The highly efficient RAF bomb squad travelled 200 miles from their base to diffuse the mechanism which was all very exciting - particularly for the chaps on the farm...
Historical artifacts from the war are fairly regularly upturned at Launceston. The countryside adjoining the North side of the farm, Crichel Down, was used as an RAF bombing range during the second world war. On a more romantic note, Jimi's grandfather, the first generation of this farming family to reside at Launceston, married one of the land girls working on the farm during the war, Judy Castle. He proposed to her in the Crown Hotel in Blandford over a cup of tea.
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