Our free exhibition PLAYING FOR CAMBORNE was open from 11 October to 6 November 2018 at Heartlands, Pool. Just over 100 years ago, a group of brave tin miners from Dolcoath set off to the Western Front after war broke out. In August 2018, 100 years on from the end of the war, Camborne Youth […]
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A snapshot of Camborne Youth Band’s recent visit to Estaires, northern France. Here’s a video of the Band presenting the rugby ball, then playing by the war memorial. And here playing in the local park. Estaires communications wizard Tony Haverland made these two short films which caught a flavour of the day. The Band was following in the footsteps of […]
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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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