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People of Cornwall, #6:
model, lover-boy, cycling star, international rugby player and arguably Cornwall’s greatest sportsman: who else but…
John Jackett
On this date…
...7 March 1998: the day after South Crofty, Cornwall’s last tin mine closed, parades starting at Camborne and Redruth’s rugby clubs culminated at the mine. Yet mining and rugby had always been closely linked…
Rugby and Mining in Camborne
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Cornish Rugby’s England Trialists, 1919 to 1939
Roll of Honour ~ Camborne School of Mines RFC
The Polruan School Strike of 1922
John Hicks Sobey and The Duke of Cornwall’s Cup, 1868
Fore Street, Redruth, 1870s. From Kresen Kernow, ref. corn0584
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Terry Bracher, Judging Panel, Alan Ball Local History Awards, 2024
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