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The Cornish Mining World Heritage Events Programme
Celebrating ten years of global recognition for Cornwall & west Devon’s mining heritage Events programme Eighty performances in over fifty venues across the ten World Heritage Site areas www.cornishmining.org.uk n July 2006, the Cornwall and west Devon Mining Landscape was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. To celebrate the 10th Ianniversary of this remarkable achievement in 2016, the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Partnership has commissioned an exciting summer-long set of inspirational events and experiences for a Tinth Anniversary programme. Every one of the ten areas of the UK’s largest World Heritage Site will host a wide variety of events that focus on Cornwall and west Devon’s world changing industrial innovations. Something for everyone to enjoy! Information on the major events touring the World Heritage Site areas can be found in this leaflet, but for other local events and the latest news see our website www.cornish-mining.org.uk/news/tinth- anniversary-events-update Man Engine Double-Decker World Record Pasty Levantosaur Three Cornishmen Volvo CE Something BIG will be steaming through Kernow this summer... Living proof that Cornwall is still home to world class engineering! Over 10m high, the largest mechanical puppet ever made in the UK will steam the length of the Cornish Mining Landscape over the course of two weeks with celebratory events at each point on his pilgrimage. No-one but his creators knows what he looks like - come and meet him for yourself and be a part of his ‘transformation’: THE BIG REVEAL! -
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BEST OF CORNWALL 2020 Marianne Stokes, née Priendlsberger 1855 - 1927 Lantern Light, 1888 Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 102 cm Penlee House Gallery & Museum Purchased by private treaty from Mr & Mrs Allan Amey with assistance from The Art Fund, The MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of Penlee A brief and incomplete history of ... art and artists in Cornwall By Andrea Breton Cornwall has always appealed to the creative type; a land of mists and megaliths, it combines a wide variety of landscape, from perfectly sanded coves to dramatic cliffs and breakers; bleak, haunted moors to lush vegetal valleys. There are picturesque harbours and grand country houses set in vast acreages. There are impressive landmarks from the past such as Tintagel Castle, St Michael’s Mount and more standing stones and Neolithic sites than you can shake a stick at. They exist happily alongside the present day futuristic domes of Eden, the stately grey bulk of Tate St Ives, old Mine chimneys (sensibly bestowed with World Heritage status) and the spoil heaps of the clay pits near St Austell. 35 BEST OF CORNWALL 2020 However there is more to Cornwall’s appeal than It was clear that luck landmarks. It is the geographical distance to the rest of was needed. Fortunately, the England; the quirk of geology which makes Cornwall Victorian age was coming somewhat longer than it is wide. Surrounded by the sea, and with it the age of steam it gives the county an all enveloping bright light, allegedly powered travel and the artists’ a couple of lux higher than the mainland. -
Work Placement Handbook
Work Placement Handbook 2012 CONTENTS • Background to Falmouth Art Gallery • Falmouth Art Gallery’s Work placement Policy • Work placement Benefits • Getting the most from the placement • Guidelines General Safety Health Object Handling Supervision • Staff Lists • Forms Falmouth Art Gallery Falmouth Art gallery is a service funded by Falmouth Town Council. It is an accredited museum and complies with standards laid down for the Registration of Museums in the United Kingdom and works in partnership with: Age Concern, The Art Fund, Arts Council England, Brightwater Holidays, Combined Universities of Cornwall, Cornwall and Devon Media, Cornwall College, Cornwall Council Conservation Department, Cornwall Heritage Trust, CSV RSVP, Earls Retreat, Falmouth Arts Society, Falmouth BIDS, Falcare (formerly Mencap), Falmouth Marine School, Falmouth Stroke Club, Heritage Lottery Fund, Hine Downing Solicitors, Jason Thomas Dance Company, Kerrier Pupil Referral Unit, Kids in Museums, Langholme, Little Parc Owles Trust, Local schools, MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council), MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Museums Association, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Newquay Zoo, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Royal Cornwall Museum, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Sully’s Picture Framing Penryn, Susie Group (victims of domestic abuse), Swamp Circus, Tate St Ives, The Tanner Trust, Truro and Penwith College, U3A, University College Falmouth, University of Exeter, Wayfarers,The West End Group – Murdoch and Trevithick Centre, The WILD Young Parents Group Falmouth Art Gallery The Origins of the Collection The first Falmouth Art Gallery was opened in Grove Place in 1894 under the Directorship of William Ayerst Ingram and Henry Scott Tuke. It featured their own work along with that of Sophie Anderson, Richard Harry Carter, Charles Davidson, Topham Davidson, Winifred Freeman and Charles Napier Hemy. -
Penzance | Newlyn | St Buryan | Porthcurno | Land’S End Open Top A1 Daily
Penzance | Newlyn | St Buryan | Porthcurno | Land’s End open top A1 daily route number A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 Mondays to Fridays only not Sundays Penzance bus & rail station stand B 0630x 0835 0935 1035 1135 1235 1335 1435 1535 1635 1740 1740 Penzance Green Market 0633 0838 0938 1038 1138 1238 1338 1438 1538 1638 1743 1743 Saturdays only Penzance Alexandra Inn 0842 0942 1042 1142 1242 1342 1442 1542 1642 1747 1747 Newlyn Bridge 0846 0946 1046 1146 1246 1346 1446 1546 1646 1751 1751 this bus returns via St Buryan and Newlyn Gwavas Crossroads Chywoone Hill 0849 0949 1049 1149 1249 1349 1449 1549 1649 1754 1756 to Penzance Sheffield 0852 0952 1052 1152 1252 1352 1452 1552 1652 1757 1801 this bus runs direct from Lamorna turn x 0857 0957 1057 1157 1257 1357 1457 1557 1657 1802 1807 Penzance to St Buryan via Drift Crossroads St Buryan Post Office 0648 0904 1004 1104 1204 1304 1404 1504 1604 1704 1809 1814 Treen bus shelter 0655 0911 1011 1111 1211 1311 1411 1511 1611 1711 1816 1821 Porthcurno car park 0701 0920 1020 1120 1220 1320 1420 1520 1620 1720 1825 1827 Land's End arr 0716 0937 1037 1137 1237 1337 1437 1537 1637 1737 1842 1844 same bus - no need to change A1 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 Land's End dep 0719 0947 1047 1147 1247 1347 1447 1547 1647 1747 1847 1849 Sennen First and Last 0724 0952 1052 1152 1252 1352 1452 1552 1652 1752 1852 1854 extra journey on school days Sennen Cove 0730 0958 1058 1158 1258 1358 1458 1558 1658 1758 1858 1900 Penzance bus & rail station 1508 St Just bus station 1014 1114 1214 1314 1414 -
[Cornwall.] 698 (Post 0 Ffic:E
• [CORNWALL.] 698 (POST 0 FFIC:E ha-ving changed into tin, one is now being developed for WliEA.L COMFORD MINE copper. There are three main cross-courses. The company is on the limited liability system, and consists of 25,000 £1 Is in the parish of Gwennap, Duchy of Cornwall, and shares. mining district of Gwennap. It is situated 2 miles from Redruth. A branch line of the West Cornwall comes into Secretary~ Consulting Engineer, T. Currie Gregory, 62 the centre of the mine, by which all produce can be 11ent or St. Vincent street, Gla!!gow material received. The nearest shipping places for ores and Purxers ~Managers, Messrs. Skewis & Bawden, Tavistock machinery are Devoran and Portreath, 6 amJ 5 miles from Resident Agents, Samuel Mayne & Z. J ames the mine. The mine is held under a lea~m for 21 years, granted by Lord Clinton and others. The mine is worked WHEAL BASSET MINE now for tin, it having formerly been a copper mine, from Is in the parish of Illogan, and mining district oz Basset; which produce many dividends were paid. The company is it is situated g miles from the town of Redruth. The on the costbook system, and divided into 5,175 shares. nearest shipping place is at Portreath, 5 miles, and the Purser, John Sambell, Redruth nearest railway station is at Redruth, I~ mile11. The mine is held under a lease for 21 years from 1871, at a royalty of Agent, Peter Phillips, Stithians l-15th, wanted by Gustavus L. Basset Basset, ofTehidypark. WHEAL CONCORD TIN MINE, ST. -
CARBINIDAE of CORNWALL Keith NA Alexander
CARBINIDAE OF CORNWALL Keith NA Alexander PB 1 Family CARABIDAE Ground Beetles The RDB species are: The county list presently stands at 238 species which appear to have been reliably recorded, but this includes • Grasslands on free-draining soils, presumably maintained either by exposure or grazing: 6 which appear to be extinct in the county, at least three casual vagrants/immigrants, two introductions, Harpalus honestus – see extinct species above two synathropic (and presumed long-term introductions) and one recent colonist. That makes 229 resident • Open stony, sparsely-vegetated areas on free-draining soils presumably maintained either by exposure breeding species, of which about 63% (147) are RDB (8), Nationally Scarce (46) or rare in the county (93). or grazing: Ophonus puncticollis – see extinct species above Where a species has been accorded “Nationally Scarce” or “British Red Data Book” status this is shown • On dry sandy soils, usually on coast, presumably maintained by exposure or grazing: immediately following the scientific name. Ophonus sabulicola (Looe, VCH) The various categories are essentially as follows: • Open heath vegetation, generally maintained by grazing: Poecilus kugelanni – see BAP species above RDB - species which are only known in Britain from fewer than 16 of the 10km squares of the National Grid. • Unimproved flushed grass pastures with Devil’s-bit-scabious: • Category 1 Endangered - taxa in danger of extinction Lebia cruxminor (‘Bodmin Moor’, 1972 & Treneglos, 1844) • Category 2 Vulnerable - taxa believed -
St Just-In-Penwith Area Guide
Situated just beside the North Road at the Pendeen end, Wheal Hearle comprises two engine houses which were home to a ten inch winding engine and a thirty inch pumping engine. It was in production from about 1855 and, at its peak, employed just over one hundred men , women and boys. The mine appears to have been short lived with little reported after 1865. ST JUST 5TH EDITION IN PENWITH AREA GUIDE 2 This Guide is published by St Just-in-Penwith Town Council and thanks are given to the many people within our community, not mentioned below, who have contributed to it. All information contained within the guide is believed to be correct at time of printing but we are in a living community and things may change! Photography : Dave Smith, Phil Wilkins, Dave Stevens Articles submitted by : Adam Sharpe, Cheryl Straffen, Mary-Ann Bloomfield, Nick Smith, Craig Weatherhill, John Harry, Andrew Burt, Chris Gonninan, Terry Owen Additional text by Elaine Baker and Dave Stevens ST JUST-IN-PENWITH TOWN COUNCIL Council Offices, 1 Chapel Street, St Just, Penzance, Cornwall TR19 7LS Telephone : 01736 788412 FIFTH EDITION 3 Contents Welcome 4 A Thriving Community 5 Arts and Crafts in the St Just area 9 Plen-an-Gwary 10 St Just Feast 12 Lafrowda Festival 14 Old Cornwall Society 16 Around the Coast 17 A view into the past 22 World Heritage Site 26 St Just Mining District 29 Geevor Tin Mine 35 Balleswidden and the Clay Works 36 Ancient Sites in and around St Just and Pendeen 37 Circular Walks and Maps 41 St Just Parish Church 45 Pendeen Church 47 Preaching Houses and Chapels 48 St Just Methodist Church 49 The return of the Chough 50 A rich sporting heritage 51 Place names of St Just / Henwyn Plasow Plu Ust 54 Information 55 4 ST JUST IN PENWITH AREA GUIDE Welcome Situated within the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, Area of Outstanding A warm welcome Natural Beauty, and adjacent to one of only two natural capes in the country, to this unique St Just-in-Penwith is the most westerly town in Britain and well worth a visit. -
Ancestors of Robert Maddern
Ancestors of Robert Maddern Generation 1 1. Robert Maddern, son of Matthias Maddern and Eliza Jane Hocking, was born on 04 Aug 1891 in Kenidjack, St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England. He died on 13 May 1949 in 11 Cresswell Terrace, St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England (Silicosis). He married Harriet Elizabeth "Hettie" Thomas on 19 Jul 1913 in United Methodist Church, Tregerest, Sancreed, Cornwall. She was born on 09 Sep 1892 in Escolls, Sennen, Cornwall, England. She died on 04 Dec 1974 in Barncoose Hospital, Redruth, Cornwall, England (Congestive cardiac failure & Ischaemic heart disease). Generation 2 2. Matthias Maddern, son of James Maddern and Amelia Trembath Woolcock, was born on 07 Mar 1865 in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England. He died on 21 Apr 1937 in 19 Pleasant Row, St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England (Retired farmer. Broncho-pneumonia, influenza. HE (?) Maddern son present at the death of Botallack, St Just.). He married Eliza Jane Hocking on 17 May 1891 in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England (Marriage witnesses Thomas EDDY and William MERRIFIELD). 3. Eliza Jane Hocking, daughter of Richard Henry Hocking and Amelia Ann Eddy, was born on 04 Feb 1871 in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England. She died on 21 Nov 1955 in West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, of 18 Pleasant Terrace, St. Just in Penwith (Widow of Matthias Maddern (farmer). Myocardial degeneration Arterio sclerosis. WE Maddern son of 5 Botallack Lane, St Just). Eliza Jane Hocking and Matthias Maddern had the following children: 1. i. Robert Maddern was born on 04 Aug 1891 in Kenidjack, St. -
West Penwith
WEST PENWITH Within West Penwith, at the tip of Cornwall, there are geological exposures and examples of Devonian volcanism, granite emplacement, contact metamorphism, metasomatism, mineralization, both endo and exo- granitic, recent Quaternary geologic activity and past exploitation of mineral resources. The area has the famous St Just-Pendeen orefield on the north- western contact of the Land’s End granite. Porth Chapel Porth Chapel beach Sheeted veins Within a short distance along the exposure in the cliff at Porth Chapel beach can be seen in microcosm elements of the intrusion, mineralization and faulting history of West Penwith. The exposure illustrates at least two phases of granite intrusion with enclaves or xenoliths, granitic dyke intrusion, early sheeted vein mineralization tourmalinization and wall rock alteration, later copper mineralization and faulting. Copper mineralization Faulting Granitic dyke Nanjizal Nanjizal Cove looking northwest Geological exposures in the cove clearly illustrate that the granite was intruded as a series of sub horizontal sheets. The cove is cut by a fault, some 4m wide, which seawards forms a sea-cave and the granite has been altered by kaolinization. On the cliffs above is a small ancient open mine working for tin in a narrow tourmaline and quartz structure. Granite sheet Granite Sheet Fault Sennen to Portheras Cove The Tribbens Sennen Cove shore platform Enclave Enclave The area between Sennen and Land’s End on a shore platform known as the Tibbens has an excellent exposure of coarse-grained granite with xenoliths or enclaves. Enclaves or xenoliths are fragments of other rocks incorporated into the magma when being intruded. -
RETALLACK SURNAME March 9 2000 by Greg Retallack
RETALLACK SURNAME March 9 2000 by Greg Retallack, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1272:gregr@ darkwing.uoregon.edu;http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~dogsci Abstract Retallack is a name endemic to Cornwall, and traceable in that southwestern English county back to 1497. The name is probably derived from Talek, recorded back to 1349, by addition of a demonstrative pronoun (those Taleks!). Talek in turn is most likely from the old Cornish talawg meaning high forehead. The comparable Welsh name Tallwch and Pictish Talorc can be traced back to the 6th century. There are numerous other ideas concerning the origin of the Retallack surname from Cornish place names, Cornish saints, mine workings and Norse and Greek gods, and these are all reviewed here. Retallacks in Cornwall were largely miners and farmers. Many left Cornwall for the United States and Australia in the 1850's. I emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1977, but my great great grandfather emigrated in 1852 to Australia, where I was born and raised. Introduction The Retallack name is unusual and often requires careful spelling out. Pronunciation is also a challenge (correct is r'-TAL-lack, rhymes with metallic). With the advent of the internet and computer-generated genealogical research I have been getting frequent requests for information on the surname and its ancestry. Here is as much as I can reconstruct. Retallack is endemic to Cornwall, England, where it has been a rare name back to the 15th century (Table 1). Since the 19th century it has been part of a global emigration (Table 2) so that there are now more Retallacks in Australia and the U.S. -
MINUTES of the MEETING of ST JUST-IN-PENWITH TOWN COUNCIL Held in the Council Chamber, Council Offices, 1 Chapel Street, St Just on Monday 24 May 2010 at 7.15 P.M
MINUTES of the MEETING of ST JUST-IN-PENWITH TOWN COUNCIL held in the Council Chamber, Council Offices, 1 Chapel Street, St Just on Monday 24 May 2010 at 7.15 p.m. PRESENT Councillor D Stevens - Mayor COUNCILLORS B F Angwin F Morris W F East M Nicholls K McFadden Mrs S Olds TOWN CLERK Elaine Baker ALSO IN ATTENDANCE Councillor Chris Goninan – Cornwall Council APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Ms PS Angove, CS McClary, Mrs S James, TN McFadden and M Thomas. TC.49 PUBLIC ADDRESS AT COUNCIL MEETINGS None. TC.50 MINUTES RESOLVED:-That the Minutes of the meeting of the Town Council held on 26 April and the Annual General Meeting held on 10 May 2010 be approved as an accurate record and signed by the Mayor. TC.51 DECLARATIONS OF INTERESTS Councillor Goninan declared a prejudicial interest in minute no. TC.60 (a) (Applications for Financial Assistance) as Chairman of St Just in Bloom and agreed to withdraw from the meeting for consideration of the item. TC.52 REPORT OF THE TOWN MAYOR, DEPUTY TOWN MAYOR & TOWN COUNCILLORS The Mayor reported that he and the Town Clerk had attended the Town & Parish Forum Meeting on 13 May 2010. The meeting had received a presentation from Armand Toms, Cabinet member for Adult Social Care, as well as Mark Eccles the local Police Inspector for Penzance. Mark Eccles had reported that the Police were currently focussing their efforts on the trouble spots within Penzance and the Mayor suggested that it may be helpful to invite the Police to a future meeting of the Town Council to update the Council on operational demands. -
Discover-Cornish-Mining.Pdf
CORNISH MINING WHERE CAN I EXPERIENCE WORLD HERITAGE SITE CORNISH MINING? ornwall and West Devon Mining The World Heritage Site has many Landscape World Heritage Site, exciting mining heritage attractions Cpopularly known as Cornish across Cornwall and west Devon Mining, has gained international which together enable the visitor recognition from UNESCO for specific to experience the full breadth mine sites, landscapes, towns and of the Cornish Mining story. villages within Cornwall and west Devon, which are of global significance. The following pages contain information on these attractions to As a World Heritage Site, Cornwall and help plan your visit, and for further west Devon’s historic mining landscapes information on Cornish Mining, and are on par with such international links to these sites, please log on to treasures as Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, www.cornishmining.org.uk and the Great Wall of China. CORNISH MINING WHAT IS THE CORNISH ATTRACTIONS MINING WORLD MARKETING ASSOCIATION HERITAGE SITE? Cornish Mining Attractions marketing Association (CMAMA) works with the The Cornish Mining World Heritage Site World Heritage Site to ensure a high comprises ten landscape Areas from quality visitor experience consistent the west of Cornwall to west Devon, with World Heritage status. which together best represent the international significance of our historic All CMAMA member attractions have deep-lode metal mining. Also at just over passed a rigorous assessment process 19,700 hectares (48,700 acres), Cornish to ensure you have an enjoyable visit. Mining is the largest World Heritage At CMAMA attractions you can find Site on the United Kingdom mainland. out about the historical and cultural significance of the World Heritage Site and other places to visit which Cover and facing image; tell the story of Cornish Mining.