Rowena Cade, creator of Minack Theatre, Cornwall.

Rowena Cade is remembered by Tom Angrove, her ‘builders mate’ :

‘carrying single handed twelve 15 foot (4.5 metres) wooden beams from the shoreline right to the theatre. Customs men, looking for salvage from a Spanish freighter, met her on the beach.

Challenged about whether she had seen the timber Rowena admitted that she had taken up some wood that morning. She suggested that the officers should come and see it. But, thinking that such a frail looking woman couldn’t have lifted what they were looking for, they went on their way’