Local historian Len Sheppard gave a fascinating talk on life at sea during the war years at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, during our exhibition Heart of Conflict. Len, co-ordinator at Newquay Museum, is passionate about the subject and has a wealth of material on it. He talked about the build-up to the War – and then the […]
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It was great to see a packed house in early April at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, for a talk on medical care and nursing in World War One. The talk was inspired by our volunteer Valerie Grigg who has contributed such a lot to our exhibition on Cornwall during the war years. Heart of Conflict […]
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Heart of Conflict, our exhibition on World War One in Cornwall, is open now at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. It was great to see so many old – and new – friends at the opening. The exhibition will run until the end of June 2017. It is wonderful to have so many stories and objects […]
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Hannah Wright, a photographer based in Truro, Cornwall, has taken a fantastic photogallery of the National Explosives Factory, Hayle, for Heart of Conflict. At its peak in World War One, the factory was one of the largest in the country and employed 1,800 people. Now all that remains are sand dunes, scarred with banks and bunkers. Huts producing […]
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We marked Friday 11 November (Remembrance Day) with a short ceremony at Stithians Church (,ed by Fr Simon Bone) organised by local Duke of Edinburgh volunteer Rhiannon Stevenson. Rhiannon has been helping us with research on our exhibition Heart of Conflict (now open at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro) and found that there was (unusually) a World War […]
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It was great to visit Helston Museum as Heart of Conflict, our project in west Cornwall marking the centenary of World War One. Assistant curator Tracey Clowes opened the museum especially last evening for a group of boys (and one girl) from Redruth Boys’ Brigade. (We visited this group at one of their meetings in […]
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