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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
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...20 June 1863: Cornish wrestler Joseph Menear beats Devonian arch-rival John Slade in London to win the Duke of Cornwall’s Cup…
Joseph Menear, London’s First Wrestling Star
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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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