We’re delighted to have received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to take work forward in Hayle to look at World War One history there in this centenary year of the end of the war. This is part of our project, Heart of Conflict, looking at Cornwall during World War One. Heroes of Hayle: […]
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We are delighted to have received Heritage Lottery funding so we can work with Camborne Youth Band on plans to travel to the Menin Gate, Belgium, in August . This is part of our project, Heart of Conflict, marking the centenary of World War One in Cornwall. The Band has been invited to play at […]
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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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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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