Fantastic today (Saturday 12 May) to see Camborne RFC president Terry Williams present a rugby ball signed by Cornwall and Devon teams to Camborne Youth Band. The Band will take it back to the Western Front 100 years after three historic matches were played there between Cornwall and Devon teams after Camborne Rugby Club sent […]
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A wonderful visit this afternoon to the Wallace Collection in London with the Elders’ group from the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith. We visited the museum’s dazzling collection of furniture, paintings, mirrors and china… not to mention the armoury. We were all inspired to create our own gold boxes at the end in the Education Centre. See […]
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It was great to see our World War One exhibition, Heart of Conflict, on display again at Paul Church, near Mousehole, Cornwall. The display marked the re-dedication of the remarkable World War One window there. There were events and services over the May Bank Holiday weekend to celebrate and showcase all the work that’s been […]
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Frank Johns’ story was the very first that we uncovered in Heart of Conflict, back in autumn 2014. We were loaned a medal with a particularly poignant name on it: Private Frank Johns, no. 6352, 1st Battalion Canadian Infantry. The records of Frank Johns’ life were mostly lost, and the family were happy for us […]
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We started work on Heart of Conflict, looking at the World War One years in Cornwall, in 2014. We worked with local groups – in particular Camborne Guides and Praze W1 – to uncover previously untold stories. Our first exhibition was at the Cornish Studies Library, Redruth, when these stories were presented for the first […]
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Corey Williams, great great grandson of Fred Negus, a Cornish miner from Camborne who served at the Western Front, now plays in Camborne Youth Band and will retrace his footsteps to France this August. Even more extraordinary, Corey’s family has Fred’s bugle brought back from France in 1919. Fred Negus was one of a group […]
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