Playing For Camborne: top Youth Band visits the Western Front

A highlight of 2018 was Camborne Youth Band’s trip to France and Belgium. The young musicians took a 100-year-old bugle back to the Western Front belonging to Fred Negus, a Cornishman who signed up in 1914.  His great great grandson is in the Band. This was part of our Heritage Lottery funded project, Heart of […]

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Camborne Youth Band to Menin Gate: BBC interview

Great to go to BBC Radio Cornwall for an interview with Ralph Williams on Debbie McCrory’s afternoon show.  Click on the link above to listen….We’re working with Camborne Youth Band in the next stage of our project Heart of Conflict, looking at people’s memories of World War One in Cornwall 100 years on from the conflict. All sorts of […]

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Heart of Conflict

A World War One rugby match recreated

Our project Heart of Conflict is looking at World War One in Cornwall during the centenary years of the conflict. BBC Cornwall’s Hannah Stacey created a wonderful feature around the story of the three rubgy matches at the Front played in 1915 after Camborne Rugby Club sent out a ball to local men who had […]

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Appeal on Radio Cornwall for Camborne Youth Band’s Menin Gate trip

We’re currently working with Camborne Youth Band on a trip to France and Belgium this August as part of Heart of Conflict.  At the moment, everyone is raising funds to make sure that all the players will be able to go. Ralph Williams of Barriper, father of Corey Williams who plays in Camborne Youth Band, […]

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