Another day, another journey around Cornwall, and Helston was our next port of call.

We spoke to an inspiring gentleman, David Lemon, who diversified his business from video rental to milkshakes. David learnt the trade from his father, working with him in his rental business and then set up his own successful store ‘Shimmys'. David told us all about the Helston area and how Sainsbury's was soon to be opened and Tesco would be expanded meaning a lot of potential jobs on the horizon. Culdrose was the other popular source of employment, employing all sorts of civilian jobs for the children and wives of the Navy.

Pamela and Shelly, working in the Town Council helped us to find out more, informing us that the best ways to communicate jobs was through newspapers and word of mouth. They enlightened us about the nearby industrial estate that had engineering, building and other varying side companies which had "a mixture of commuters and local people, all within commuting distance through Cambourne and Redruth." Within Helston town the place to work seemed to be the post office.

"Market research shows that Helston is booming as far as population is concerned," Martin, Manager of Blue Anchor summarised, saying there have been booms and busts but nothing has stuck. Martin was aware of the difficulties of getting jobs, saying "there has always been a lack of jobs around here." Martin's final comments gave us some direction as Martin told us about the decline in the farming, fishing and mining industries, saying that it was "nothing like it used to be." He then went on to inform us that some people made a living from fishing and they tend to do that down in Porthleven. Porthleven was obviously somewhere to look into, so after thanking Martin for his time and knowledge, off we set for Porthleven...