A truly emotional – and wonderful – occasion. Camborne Youth Band played at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, tonight to an audience of hundreds. Ambassadors for Cornwall’s youth and for Brass Bands everywhere. We remembered the millions who died in World War One. The Band was following in the footsteps of Cornish miners from Dolcoath […]
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BBC Cornwall’s Donna Birrell featured Camborne Youth Band’s historic trip to France and Belgium over August 2018 Bank Holiday weekend. PC Dave Wilton of Camborne laid a wreath on the grave of Thomas Penhorwood, a Newquay policeman in the Royal Army Medical Corps who was shot in the head collecting wounded from No Man’s Land […]
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Heroes of Hayle: World War One stories from home and the Western Front is looking at various aspects of life in the town during 1914-18. For details of talks and a walk that we’ve held so far – click here. Next up: acclaimed local author Jenny Alexander is running poetry workshops in September and October to create […]
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Great to be at Camborne Youth/Junior Contesting Band last night (23 July 2018) to talk more about the trip to France and Belgium in August to mark the centenary of the end of World War One. The Band will be following in the footsteps of Cornish miners from Dolcoath who signed up in autumn 1914 […]
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It really was an historic occasion last night in Hayle last night (19 July 2018) when Robert (Ken) Johns came to talk at the Passmore Edwards Hall on the 251st Tunnelling Company formed in Hayle. This company was an expert unit that tunnelled under enemy lines during World War One. It was highly skilled and […]
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Our project I Packed This Myself started in 2006, working with migrant workers and farming communities in Cornwall. We first met workers from eastern Europe, who were working on the land in west Cornwall. Many were isolated and faced discrimination and prejudice. We also found another group of workers facing discrimination – the Portuguese in […]
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