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Paul Rabey was a Gwennap-born con artist who made a living selling shares in mines that didn’t actually exist…
They Died With Their Shoes On
On this date…
...27 February 1920: riot and looting in Redruth Market over the cost of butter…
The Cornish Butter Boycott
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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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