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Mass unemployment in 1930s Cornwall gave rise to a new sporting phenomenon…
Sport on the Dole: Cornwall’s Unemployed Rugby Clubs
On this date…
...25 April 1914: former Camborne RFC player Harry Launce helps his new team Salford win the Northern Union Championship. Launce wasn’t the only man from Cornwall to switch rugby codes…
Cornwall’s Rugby Codebreakers
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John Jackett’s Ghost: Cornish Rugby and the 1928 County Championship
Cornish Rugby’s England Trialists, 1919 to 1939
Roll of Honour ~ Camborne School of Mines RFC
The Polruan School Strike of 1922
Fore Street, Redruth, 1870s. From Kresen Kernow, ref. corn0584
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