PICTURED?above is young Charlie Southcott and his brother William with one of the Royal Marines drafted in to ferry cars, stranded behind the collapsed road at Lower Kelly in Calstock, down the river to Cotehele. Charlie instigated the Royal?Navy involvement after meeting a commodore at a function he attended with his family.
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