Death on a Cornish Beach

In the summer of 1959, Geoffrey Coleman Smith of Whitethorn, Hill End, Hardington Mandeville, went on holiday to Cornwall with his wife, Margaret. He was the Accounts Director at the Yeovil gloving firm of Clothier, Giles & Co, and their factory had probably shut down for a two-week break. Geoffrey liked visiting Cornwall for its landscape and beaches and because of family associations.