Celebrating Sporting History in Cornwall Cornwall's Sporting
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1 July - 1 September 9 April - 27 October 1 March - 31 October Celebrating sporting 7 Fowey Sport 11 Duck Egg Record Home and Away Cricket Bat history in Cornwall Fowey Museum Lost Gardens of Heligan 1 Tel: 01726 852 458 Tel: 01726 845 100 Fowey Museum will Mrs Tremayne was celebrate, in a new presented with a curious exhibition, the variety of cricket bat in 1868 after sports that have taken place getting the duck egg (score 3 in Fowey, and the people of zero) record. Made by R who played them. Local hero, Palk and WLS Trelawney, Percy Seymour Varco, who who described themselves Pilchard Tails and played professional football as artisans of Heligan, the with Aston Villa and later bat includes a flattened tea 15 Other Sports in Constantine 21 became mayor of Fowey spoon, coins and tokens, Constantine Heritage Centre features, as well as ‘Charlie’ and the initials MT. The Tel: 01326 341 353 Rundle who played football small display will also for Tottenham Hotspur. feature photographs of the Constantine once had two football clubs, a bowling club, a rugby There will be photographs, Tremayne family at this date. club and tennis club. It also had the Constantine Pilchard Tails 5 trophies, medals and cycling club. One Constantine family provided a seven-a-side 32 36 memorabilia on display. 35 2 rugby team for Penryn, while local characters such as Dix (Harry Phillips) played darts. This exhibition will explore Constantine’s rich 17 and humorous sporting heritage. 14 18 29 2 August - 1 September See website for dates 2 April - 31 October 38 16 37 25 31 7 30 10 11 28 19 27 34 4 13 24 9 8 Events and exhibitions exhibitions and Events 2012 23 33 6 20 4 12 3 Kernow Kernow 22 Discover Cornwall’s Sporting Heritage 26 Cornish Studies Library 8 12 Istoriow Sport Sport Istoriow Tel: 01209 216 760 This exhibition of photographs, books, newspapers and original Hand Drilling Activity Bob Fitzsimmons and There will also be displays at sports centres manuscript sources will explore the history of sport in Cornwall. Sporting Histories Sporting Geevor Tin Mine other Helston sporting personalities Sports featured will include Cornish wrestling, gig rowing and and Cornish Mining World Heritage sites rugby. The exhibition will highlight the George Ellis Collection Tel: 01736 788 662 Helston Museum of sporting photographs from the late 1930s to 1960s, as well Hand-drilling competitions used to be run regularly during the Tel: 01326 564 027 Cornwall’s Cornwall’s across Cornwall during the summer of 2012 as original historic documents from Cornwall Record Office. A Geevor Gala, part of the social side of mining life. A panel describing The Cornish Archives Network A new display of sporting memorabilia featuring Helston’s children’s art workshop with ‘Beano’ cartoonist Nick Brennan this is on the first floor of the Hard Rock Museum at Geevor. A and in the Heritage Pavilion at the Royal sporting hero, boxer Bob Fitzsimmons. Including local items and will launch the exhibition at 10.30am on 2 August. Pre-booking hand-drilling activity will be available to try regularly every school objects from around the world. (CAN) and Cornwall Museums Cornwall Show. is advisable. holiday. Open 1.30-3pm, see www.geevor.com for details. Group (CMG) have joined forces See www.visitcornwallmuseums.co.uk or 2 April - 4 November 6 April - 27 October 31 March - 1 April to raise awareness of their www.cornwall.gov.uk/cro for more details. fantastic collections of sport- Donating/depositing records 5 Croquet on the or objects Bowling Green related documents, photographs Cotehele House If you are a member of a sporting Tel: 01579 351 346 and objects. Supported by Here’s an opportunity for organisation with archives or objects that great aunts to trounce their Cornwall Record Office (CRO) great nephews and nieces you think might be better housed in a Image © Mike Nottage at croquet and play other and the Museum Development museum or archive, or have a personal old sports and games too. The games are available collection that you would like to donate or every day for your pleasure. 13 Team (MDT) this project brings 9 together a superb range of deposit, please contact your local museum 34th International Mining Games or community archive. For more general 60 Years in Gerrans Parish King Edward Mine events and exhibitions for lovers advice or for collections that cover the Gerrans Heritage Centre Tel: 01209 714 681 county, please contact Cornwall Record Tel: 01872 580274 The International Mining Games will be held in the UK in 2012 for of sport and history across the the first time in its 34 year history. Hosted by Camborne School This exhibition focuses on Gerrans parish and its characters from of Mines, most competitions will take place at King Edward Mine. Office (via 01872 323127 or cro@cornwall. 60 years ago to the present day. Including sports personalities like The games are very competitive and began in 1978 in honour of 91 county alongside Kernocopia, Tom Sharp (a cricket captain) and football, cricket and triathlon gov.uk) or the Museum Development Team miners killed in the 1972 Sunshine Mine disaster, Idaho, USA. The memorabilia, also Mr Perryman’s football cups and medals. The Photograph by Lee Searle six games are jackleg drilling, mucking, track stand, gold panning, the Cultural Olympiad project. (via [email protected]). local school and regattas will also feature. 1 3 hand steeling and surveying. 16 July - 24 August 13 April - 28 October 23 June - 8 September 1 September, 11am-6pm 1 March - 4 November If you would like this information in another format or language please contact: 1 2 Cornwall Council Design on Keels, Kayles 14 Historic Attitudes County Hall, Treyew Road Track and Bowls 6 Soaring Spirits Towards Sport Truro TR1 3AY Bude Castle Heritage Callington Heritage Falmouth Art Gallery (1485 - 1714) Centre Centre Telephone: 0300 1234 100 Tel: 01326 313 863 Tel: 01288 357 300 Tel: 01579 389 506 Lanhydrock House Email: [email protected] This unique exhibition, staged to coincide Chris Jarvis, a retired Throughout the towns Tel: 01208 265 963 www.cornwall.gov.uk with the Olympics and Paralympics, will GP, has travelled with and villages of South The library at Lanhydrock show how challenge can lead to great the British cycling East Cornwall there is House contains 3000 volumes. artistic achievement. All of the artists on team to the Olympics, evidence for the ancient Housed in the spectacular 35 display have attained new levels in art as Follow us on Twitter @cornwallcouncil Paralympics and with Cornish version of skittles metre Long Gallery, it is one of a result of overcoming their own personal the English team to the - called keels or kayles. At the most important collections challenges. Indeed, they are a catalyst for Commonwealth games. Callington Heritage Centre 10 of rare books in Europe. This their genius, enriching and energising their Join us on Facebook Chris is loaning his the sport’s history is exhibition will draw on the rich work. The exhibition looks at inspiring collection of Olympic traced through numerous collection to show how sport examples from the 18th century to the Sport in Grampound Printed on recycled paper posters to the Centre references to this sport, was viewed through Tudor and present day and will feature works by artists JN29641 April 2012 for display and local as well as bowls. Was this Grampound with Creed Heritage Centre Stuart eyes. It will reflect on the including Henri Matisse, Bryan Pearce, schools will be asked the upper class version of Tel: 01726 882 734 popularity of Tudor folk games Patrick Woodroffe and Edward Lear. to design Olympic or keels? Visit the exhibition The people of Grampound have always been keen on sport. and follow the decline of sport sport posters, stamps to find out! Football has been played in the village for at least a hundred years before and after the British and t-shirts to display and records show that there were bowls players there in Tudor civil war and its resurgence alongside the original times. Cornish wrestling and hurling have also featured in the of popularity with the 1660 Olympic posters. village’s past as have cricket, tennis and table tennis. Come along Restoration of the monarchy. on Carnival Day and find out about our rich sporting heritage! 2 April - 2 November 1 April - 31 October 18 May - 18 August 2 April - 31 October 10 April - 31 October 27 July - 12 August 31 15 Sporting 23 One and Ball: Forty Years of Sport in 35 Three Cheers Activity in Football, Hurling, for St Neot Launceston, Posters Rugby and other St Neot Local Historians St Austell Museum 1880-1960 ball games in West Tel: 01579 320 669 Tel: 01726 73110 Lawrence House Cornwall This exhibition sets out to Museum Sports posters from the dispel the myth that nothing Melville and Joyce Robins Tel: 01566 773 277 Penlee House Gallery sporty ever happened in St and Museum collection will be on An exhibition Neot. It will focus on two St 19 Tel: 01736 363625 27 display throughout 2012. Neot wrestlers who took part of costume, The posters were printed memorabilia and Penlee House’s nod to the in the Cornwall championship in St Austell between 1916 as well as cricket and football photographs of Olympics 2012 will be a celebration and the 1950s and include Launceston sporting Mevagissey Sporting Heroes of the ball skills of West Cornwall The History of Rugby, Football and teams. St Neot’s chief claim wrestling, boxing, water to fame is as the venue for activities, 1880-1960.