PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE opening – photogallery

Many thanks to Aidan Botha, of Heartlands, Pool, for this wonderful selection of photographs from the opening of our exhibition PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE: MUSIC AND RUGBY IN WORLD WAR ONE, which was on display from 11 October to 6 November 2018 at Heartlands.

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Armistice Day 2018 in Estaires

We were honoured to be in Estaires, northern France, to mark Armistice Day 2018 – 100 years since the end of World War One. Many Cornishmen in the 25th Field Ambulance were stationed in the town. In August 2018, we travelled out to Estaires with Camborne Youth Band with the 100-year-old bugle belonging to one […]

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Camborne MP George Eustice with Estaires Mayor Bruno Ficheux

Keeping up links with French WW1 town

A very good visit to London last week (16 October 2019) from our friends from Estaires, northern France, including the Mayor, Bruno Ficheux. We have been keeping up links between Estaires and Cornwall ever since we discovered that the 25th Field Ambulance (in which many Cornish miners from Camborne and Redruth were serving) was based […]

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Knitting poppies

It was very good to team up with Tina Williams  of Barripper, near Camborne in Cornwall, over Remembrance Day 2019. Tina had the brilliant idea of encouraging people to crochet and knit poppies to be displayed at our exhibition PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE: MUSIC AND RUGBY IN WORLD WAR ONE AND NOW at Camborne Library (10 […]

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Fred Negus – the story

In Heart of Conflict, our work on Cornwall during World War One, we’ve uncovered many previously untold stories – including that of Fred Negus, one of the men from Dolcoath tin mine, near Camborne, who went straight out to the Western Front in 1914 and joined the 25th Field Ambulance, part of the  Royal Army […]

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Young Trustees Movement Champion

Every small charity depends on the dynamism of its Trustees and we’re lucky to have Leonora Rae on the team at Bridging Arts. Leonora, who works in Charity Business Development at EdenTree Investment Management, joined the Board last year and has brought her insights and experience of the sector to our meetings. Leonora is also […]

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