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Autumn 2015 E-Newsletter Autumn 2015 E-newsletter Dear Reader, Welcome to the autumn edition of our e-newsletter. The newsletter covers news from Cornwall Record Office and the Cornish Studies Library and is sent out quarterly. If you know anyone who would like to subscribe, please ask them to send a blank email to [email protected] with ‘Subscribe to E-newsletter’ in the subject line. We hope you enjoy this edition. Kind regards, The Archives and Cornish Studies Team News Kresen Kernow Funding Success! The world’s largest collection of manuscripts, books, maps and photographs related to Cornwall will have a new home in Redruth! After more than 10 years of planning the final element of funding has been found to turn the dream for a new archive centre for Cornwall into reality. The news was announced in early August in a visit by John Whittingdale, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to the former Redruth Brewery site, which will house the centre. He welcomed the £11.7 million Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) award to Cornwall Council to create Kresen Kernow. With an ever-growing interest in Cornish heritage, this new building, complete with cutting edge digital facilities, will help people across the globe learn more about Cornwall and its rich culture and history. At the heart of the project will be the extensively refurbished historic brewhouse with a new environmentally sustainable extension for archive storage and care. Work will begin on construction in 2016 with the centre due to open in 2018. The HLF grant will also fund a wide programme of events and activities at the centre, around Cornwall and online, including workshops, training and the ‘Out of the Ordinary’ exhibition, featuring loans of significant Cornish documents from national collections. Digital engagement with Cornwall’s archives will be transformed, and a dynamic and enhanced range of volunteering opportunities will be on offer. You can read more about the project by visiting our dedicated webpages: www.cornwall.gov.uk/kresenkernow. You can also stay up-to-date by finding us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, just search for Kresen Kernow. Lanhydrock project nationally recognised We were also delighted to hear recently that our project in partnership with the National Trust at Lanhydrock has been recognised by the National Archives, and has also been recognised as an exemplar by the National Trust. You can read the project case study here: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/cornwall-record-office.htm. What’s on? Join us at the Cornish Studies Library on Friday October 30th for a FREE family learning event! Cops ‘n’ Robbers features Dandy/Beano cartoonist, Nick Brennan, and the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary Heritage and Learning Resource will be bringing artefacts and documents from their collection – including stocks and a Tardis! You’ll also be able to explore one of the brilliant Bodmin Gaol registers, and learn more about Cornish criminals in the past and the punishments they faced. With Nick you can ‘create a criminal’ inspired by the material on display. The event runs from 10am-3pm with cartoon workshops at 11am-12pm and 12.30pm-1.30pm. Please note, pre-booking for the workshops is essential (call 01209 216 760). The event is part of the national Big Draw campaign, where every picture tells a story. You can read more about it here: http://www.thebigdraw.org/event/Cops_n_Robbers/5858. On Saturday October 31st we’ll open our new exhibition, A Good Send Off. The third and final instalment in our ‘Life Through Archives’ series, this exhibition looks at death, burial and everything in between. Featuring burial registers, wills, photographs, books and accounts, you can read how a shipwreck changed burial history and how one aristocrat was ‘buried’ sitting in his folly! The exhibition is on at the Cornish Studies Library from Saturday October 31st until Saturday December 5th during Library opening hours. For the most up to date information about what’s going on, Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/kresenkernow or find us on Twitter and Instagram, @kresenkernow. Recent accessions Between June and August Cornwall Record Office received 40 accessions. These demonstrate the wide range of cultural and sporting activities people in Cornwall have enjoyed over the past 100 years. They include: A souvenir programme for the Grand Belisha Bazaar held under the patronage of Gracie Fields at Alexandra Road Methodist Church, Penzance, 1937 (AD2403/7) Annotated programmes for rugby matches between Cornwall and Gloucestershire (1947), Dorset and Wiltshire (1948) and Monmouthshire (1949); football matches for Cornwall versus Bury, Portsmouth and Burnley (all 1948) and cricket match between Cornwall and Devon, 1946 (AD2397/1-3) Programmes for three one act plays ('The Boy Comes Home', 'Birds of a Feather', and 'Thirty Minutes in a Street'), put on by Falmouth Grammar School and a production of ‘A Hundred Years Old’ by Falmouth Drama Group, all of which were performed at All Saints Hall, Falmouth in 1946 (AD2404/1-2) Records of the Cornwall Branch of the Celtic Congress including material about the International Celtic Congress held at Bude in 2000 (accession 9525) We have also received a fascinating album of photographs taken by the well-known Camborne photographer J. C. Burrow in the late 19th and early 20th century. This contains pictures of wrecks, both on land and at sea. They include photographs of the sailing ship ‘Alexander Yeats’ which ran aground at Gurnards Head in September 1896, and divers attending the wreck of the steamship ‘Escurial’ of Glasgow which was stranded off Portreath in a gale in January 1895. Land-based accidents pictured include the railway engine ‘Leopard’ derailed near Camborne during The Great Blizzard of March 1891 and a traction engine belonging to Hosken, Trevithick and Polkinghorne which collapsed on East Hill, Tuckingmill after its faulty back axel broke (AD2406/1). During recent work at the Redruth Brewery Site CORMAC uncovered a safe containing a bundle of accounts for the Redruth Brewery Company Limited and J A Devenish and Company Limited dating from 1955-1962, which provide a detailed picture of the income and expenditure of these businesses. They show the purchase of ingredients used to brew the beer, as well as more surprising expenditure, such as the subscriptions they made to support a wide range of community organisations and events including: Constantine Cottage Garden Society, Newquay Rowing Club, Mayor of Penzance Disaster Relief Fund, Falmouth Amateur Operatic Society, Camborne Christmas Tree Committee, Scorrier Horse Show and Hayle Regatta (accession 9492)! Another accession received this quarter was rescued from a skip in the 1970s. These are records for Marhamchurch Parish Church, for which we currently only hold a very small collection which makes this a significant acquisition (accession 9515). They include 18th century highway surveyors’ accounts; poor accounts covering 1829-1836 and loose papers dating from the 17th to 19th centuries, which include records relating to settlement, bastardy and apprenticeship. A diverse selection of new books at the Cornish Studies Library includes: The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth by Alan Wilkinson. Lund Humphries, 2015 (ISBN – 1848221642) The sculptor, Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), is widely considered to be one of the most important British artists of the 20th century and a key figure in the development of British Modernism. This book is the first in-depth and fully illustrated survey of Hepworth's drawings and watercolours for nearly 50 years, and the first to feature drawings from all periods of her life. A history of Perranporth Golf Club by Tony Mansell. Trelease Publications, 2015. Telling the story of Perranporth Golf Club from its formation in 1926 through the planning and building of the course on the desolate mine dump to its success today. The Civil War in the South West by John Barratt. Pen & Sword Military, 2005. (ISBN – 844151468) The author is one of the leading historians of the English Civil Wars and this book retells the story of the southwestern campaigns between 1642 and 1646, with descriptions of the engagements. Also included are tours of the battle fields at Braddock Down, Stratton and Lostwithiel. Learning update Thank you to everyone you sent in photos for our Nice Place for a White Wedding exhibition; we had over 100 on show and it was lovely to read everyone’s comments about them, particularly the wedding outfit fashions. As part of the national Heritage Open Days scheme, and Redruth International Mining and Pasty Festival, we offered tours around the former Redruth brewery site, what will become Kresen Kernow. It was a lovely way for us to mark the end of the Brewing Up the Past project, with participants receiving a photo book of the project compiled by Dr Wendy Allard. Former manager, John Baughan, gave an insight into the site’s history, and Tough Dough, who are creating animations inspired by the site’s history with former workers and local school children, premiered the first animation and provided opportunities for people to participate in the next one. Over 100 people participated in the tours and many more dropped in to see our work and find out more about the project so it was lovely to see everyone. And we enjoyed a good pasty too! We’re busy working on a range of new workshops and resources for schools, and have taken bookings for lots of school and college visits already this year. To see a full list of what we currently offer please visit this webpage: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/community-and- living/records-archives-and-cornish-studies/learning/formal-education/. This year we’ll be taking part in Kids Takeover Day again at the Record Office, part of a national scheme where children ‘run’ a museum, archive or heritage site for the day.
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