“The secretary (Devoran W.I.) Mrs E.T. Dillon reported that 60lb of blackberry and apple jam had been made at the centre …”
as reported in Western Morning News 10 September 1941
The late Betty Phillips of Devoran remembers (Operation Cornwall 1940-44, Viv Acton and Derek Carter, p.87):
“picking pram loads of blackberries and collecting and cleaning jars for the W.I’s Preservation Centre set up in the Village Hall to make jam from the surplus fruit.”
Western Morning News 27 October 1941 – Mrs. G.T. Langdon reported that 424 lbs of jam had been made.”
(Falmouth WI branch recorded 630 lbs jam made in 1941, 675 lbs in 1942.)
Blog posted by Mark Norris, DVH100 on 13 April 1924
Devoran War Memorial Cornwall 