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model, lover-boy, cycling star, international rugby player and arguably Cornwall’s greatest sportsman: who else but…
John Jackett
On this date…
...1 March 1930: Camborne RFC became the first Cornish club to play in London when they took on Surrey’s Old Blues RFC. Before the game, they were photographed at the Cenotaph…
Camborne’s Feast Day Rugby
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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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