Issue no. 41 February 2013 Published by St. Day Parish Council

St. Day Newsletter In this issue

St. Day History Football County Councillor Parish Council School News Police W.I. Local Churches Lantern Festival And lots more!

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St. Day Historical and Conservation Society

Forthcoming events in Teyluva Children's Centre at 7.30pm

Wednesday 6th February . CORNISH COUNTRY HOUSES, an illustrated talk by PAUL HOLDEN, House and Collections Manager of Lanhydrock House. Wednesday 20th March HUSBANDS ABROAD; THE WIVES 'LEFT BEHIND' DURING 19th. c MIGRATION FROM CORNWALL; an illustrated talk by LESLEY TROTTER.We hear so much about the men who went away - but very little about the women who stayed here. So here's a chance to find out what their lives were like. Wednesday 17th April NEVER A ST DAY MAN; MEMORIES OF R.R. BLEWETT; an evening with PAUL ANNEAR. The former headmaster of our school was one of St Day's great characters. He did so much for our town - but the title comes from a remark he once overheard. If you know anyone who remembers him, do encourage them to come along!

St Day Parish Council Can you spare a couple of hours to help keep

your environment clean and tidy??

There will be a

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Saturday 2nd March at 10am Meet in the back room of the Community Centre

High visibility jackets and grabbers provided

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ST DAY AFCST DAY AFCST DAY AFC “A CLUB FOR THE FAMILY “A CLUB FOR THE FAMILY “A CLUB FOR THE FAMILY & FOR THE FUTURE”& FOR THE FUTURE”& FOR THE FUTURE”

Youth Christmas Party On Friday 7th December Santa did visit Raze the Roof for all youngsters in-volved with the youth sides. Every football player was given a boot bag with the club badge embroidered and their initials on. All other youngsters were giv-en a good quality book of some description. The evening was a great success and, with approximately 85 youngsters present, that in itself showed success. Everyone, including parents, got to play and enjoy themselves on the climbing frame and there was also laser tag for all youngsters. Thank you to Raze the Roof and to all the helpers who made the evening such great fun. Adult Christmas Party The players’ Christmas party was unfortunately a very poor turn out and we would urge all players and partners to try and support the club at all events, the weather was, however, horrendous on that day and that possibly could have been a factor, nonetheless those who did attend will hopefully agree that it was a great evening with a lot of fun thrown in. The annual Christmas draw

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was done and with 49 prizes was a great achievement to those who put in the hard work. Matt Harris was the winner of the main prize - a bicycle, however the other prizes were of exceptional quality and worthy prizes for anyone. For all those local people and businesses who donated prizes we really do thank you for your kind generosity. Ladies’ Christmas Party Saturday the 15th saw our ladies have a Christmas meal out at the local Meadery. This was a very well attended evening and will definitely be done again next year, so, if you missed out this year on the great evening which ended with returning back to the club to join in the club Christmas party and disco, look out for it next year. St Day Christmas tree Festival As a club we were invited to decorate a Christmas tree. The theme was Christ-mas Carols & Songs. St Day AFC & St Day Youth AFC were given the songs of Silver Bells & Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer respectively. All the young-sters made decorations and the trees were on display in the village Church & Chapel the 1st & 2nd weekends in December. On Monday 10th December the trees were brought back to the club and put on display inside the clubhouse. A big thank you to everyone who helped get the trees decorated. As a club we would like to say how well the event was organised and we will be happy to help the village in forthcoming events in any way we can. St Day Dinner & Dance The date has been set as Saturday 1st June and will be once again in a grand marquee on the main pitch. With over 100 people in attendance in the last 2 years we urge people to get tickets as soon as they are released. The price is to be confirmed but the club is trying to agree a price that suits the current economic climate. The youth presentation evening with take place on Friday 31st May, also in the marquee, with a 7pm start. Again, the price of tickets is to be confirmed and will be advertised through our website, newsletter and post-ers in and around the club. Plymouth Argyle Trip As a reward for all the youths’ hard work we are all going to spend a day at Plymouth Argyle FC. Everyone will get a bus there (leaving at 8am), a tour, a 3 course meal and a free ticket to watch the game against Barnet on Saturday 2nd March. All youngsters will also be given one hour of coaching from the Plymouth Argyle coaching staff. IF INTERESTED PLEASE SEE MARK LEAH or RACHEL RICHARDS AS THERE ARE ONLY 100 PLACES IN TOTAL (ADULTS & CHILDREN COMBINED) *Children are free as long as they have paid into the St Day Youth training scheme either weekly (£1) or the one off payment of £25 by September 2012. To help raise money towards the buses to take everyone to Plymouth Argyle in March we are doing a sponsored walk in my wellies around Gwennap Pit on Saturday 23rd February. The young-sters of the youth section, plus brother & sisters if they want, are going to walk around Gwennap Pit in their wellies as many times as they can to help to raise money. Because we have a very vibrant youth football club individually the

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Contacts:

For weddings, funerals and baptisms

Fr. Simon Bone, Vicar : 01872 822862

The Rectory, Church St,

St. Day

Churchwardens:

Annette Hillman 821030

Sue Manley 820187

Hall Bookings

Sheila Braddon 820285

We have many varied fund raising events during the

year. Please do come along and join us.

Holy Trinity Church

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Cornwall Councillor

Mark Kaczmarek’s report

Dear Resident, Some of you may be aware of the electoral boundary changes which will come into place when Cornwall Council holds its elec-tions on the 2ndof May this year. The current area that I officially represent is St Day and Lanner however I have still been very ac-tively involved in both Carharrack and Gwennap parishes. The two new electoral divisions will from 2ndof May be one which includes the parishes of St Day Carharrack and Gwennap, the other will be

the parishes of Lanner and Stithians. After much deliberation I have decided that I have more local knowledge of the Mining Vil-lages and the residents of this close knit community than I do with Stithians Parish and its residents. I would have been very happy to have continued working hard and representing all of the Mining Villages as I have done officially and unofficially for the last 12 years, but the time has come for me to now make the decision to stand for election in the new electoral division of St Day, Carhar-rack and Gwennap.

There is currently a planning application for an additional scrap metal yard at United Downs which in my view will threaten the 3 existing well run family businesses there. The area for many years has been blighted with Dirty Industry and, following the closure of the United Mines Landfill Site two years ago the residents of the Mining Villages have seen a marked improvement in their quality of life. I have registered my objections to the planning department and have encouraged others to do the same. St Day, Carharrack and

Gwennap parish councils have also submitted their objections on this application which will probably go to the March planning com-mittee. Just to let you all know that the Council’s Redruth One Stop Shop has now moved from Station Hill to the Library in Clinton Road, Redruth, TR15 2QE. Important Information

Cornwall Council is working in partnership with a number of organ-isations listed below and has produced a booklet to help those who

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may require help and assistance this winter and over the coming year. I will be delivering these booklets to the village post offices and the parish councils for distribution. Loft and Cavity Wall Insulation /Community Energy Plus 0800 954 1956

Cold Weather Payments 0800 055 66 88

Winter Fuel Payments 0845 601 5613

Warm Front 0800 954 1956

Befriending schemes 01872 265 307

Winter Friends 01872 265 307

Volunteer Cornwall01872 265 300

Housing – if you are unable to pay your bills or at risk of losing your home, you can speak to someone from the Council on 0300 1234 161 or someone from a group. Call Shelter on 0344 515 2300 Other groups that can help you are: Age UK Cornwall and Isles of Scilly – www.ageukcornwall.org.uk– 01872 266 388

Cornwall Councils Adult Care and Support – www.cornwall.gov.uk/

adultcareandsupport- 0300 1234 131

Ask SARA www.cornwall.gov.uk/asksara - 0300 1234 131

LifeCheck - www.nhs.uk/tools/pages/lefechecl.aspx

Penwith Community Development Trust – www.pcdt.org.uk– 01736 334686

PALS – palsteam@ciospct.cornwall.nhs.uk– 01726 627967 / 07876 391841

Cornwall Fire and Rescue – www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=17507– 0300 1234 100

Flashpoint – www.flashpointcentre.co.uk– 01208 72087

Cornwall Council Councillors – www.cornwall.gov.uk– 0300 1234 100

Cornwall Sports Partnership – www.cornwallsportspartnership.co.uk– www.getactivecornwall.co.uk– 01872 323344

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – www.cornwallfoundationtrust.nhs.uk– 01726 291100

The SAD Association – www.sada.org.uk

Victim Support – www.victimsupport.org.uk– 0845 0567 999

Finally …… Kevin Lavery, the Chief Executive Officer at Cornwall Council, will be leaving Cornwall to work in Wellington, New Zealand, and at the moment there will most likely be an interim Chief Executive from the 24th of March 2013. Interviews for a replacement will most like-ly take place after the Cornwall Council elections in May.

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youngsters don't need to raise a massive amount. Gwennap Pit, if walked cor-rectly around in the circles, up and down, is equal to 1 mile. Don’t forget to check our website for pictures of the event. Groundsman of the year Last year during the month of February, Mark and the rest of the groundsmen were inspected by CCFA officials in relation to the Groundsman of the Year award. The club has once again put Mark and the pitch in for the award and we wait to hear from them in the very near future. The pitch is put under scrutiny and the panel take into consideration the time spent on the pitch, the games played, the weather and the equipment and budget that he and the rest of the team have. If they get through, a selection of premiership groundsmen will come down and select the winner who will go to the national finals at Wembley in May. Premier League Kit Scheme We have applied for a new kit for our youth section from the Premier League Kit Scheme. The Premier League Players’ Kit Scheme will provide £500,000 worth of kit and equipment for children in England and Wales, funded by play-ers of all 20 Barclays Premier League clubs. The fund will benefit Under 16s clubs, schools and youth sports, particularly those from areas in most need of assistance. This a joint initiative between the Premier League and the Profes-sional Footballers’ Association who will manage and administer the running of the scheme – the scheme will be funded by a £25,000 donation from each Premier League club. Teams from U16 level and younger can apply to receive a free Nike football kit and equipment donated by Premier League players. Club Website & Shop Our website is constantly being updated and we hope that you continue to use it to find out all the latest news & events taking place at St Day AFC. As a club we are very proud of the website and currently on average we now have gone from having 84 people visiting everyday to approximately 178 people every day. The website has just had a make over, it includes, coming very soon, a new club shop — “Saints Shop”. You will be able to buy all the lat-est St Day AFC goodies, such as hats, scarves, mugs, stickers, polos, track-suits, hoodies and the new body warmers. We have also kept up with technolo-gy and have signed up to the social media site Twitter. Here we aim to keep you guys who are unable to attend the matches, up to date with latest scores and results of both adult and youth games. Sign up today and follow the club @stdayafc1. Fixtures Due to the recent horrendous weather for sport in general, the fixtures have piled up considerably. We now have over 30 games to fit in from all 3 teams and youth at home. We have got quite a few away games as well. Keep an eye on the website for all up to date fixtures and feel free to pop along to watch any game. With the 1st team currently sitting 2nd in the Combination League, our reserves in 4th and the 3rds in mid table positions, all games will be great contests to watch. Free match programmes are available at all games and the kitchen, serving hot food and drinks, will always be open. Come along to Vogue Park!!

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St. Day and Carharrack Community School trip to London On 23rd May a group of 33 very excited children and 5 staff met at 6 a.m. in the morning at school to say goodbye to our families and set off on a “Trip of a Life-time” – to London. Seven hours later we arrived in South Kensington outside the Meininger Hotel which was to be our base for 3 days (2 nights). As we got off of the coach it took a little time to adjust to the sensory onslaught – noises, smells, sights – so different from where we live in Cornwall.

Our first visit was to the Science Museum which was brilliantly situated just op-posite our hotel. We spent an amazing time in the “Launchpad” where we all enjoyed exploring science through hands-on and minds-on interactive exhibits supported by Museum Leaders.

Our next stop was the Natural History Museum and the “Investigate Area” where there were hundreds of real, natural history specimens – from beetles and snake skins to meteorites and skulls to touch and explore with a range of scientific investigative equipment including high powered microscopes. And, of course, we could not leave the Natural History Museum without spending time in the Dinosaur Gallery up close and personal with life size exhibits which moved, breathed fire and roared!

Tired but full of anticipation we booked into our hotel to find our en-suite rooms in what used to belong to the Scout Movement and was previously known as Baden Powell House.

On Day Two with the Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations in mind we took a boat trip replicating the trip shortly to be made by Her Majesty the Queen in June from Westminster to Greenwich and back to the Tower of London, with a boatman giving us a running commentary along the way. At the Tower the highlight – apart from the ice cream, the ravens and the beefeaters – was to see the Crown Jewels. It really was a truly iconic time to be visiting London, which was full of Union Jacks and preparations for the Olympic Games and the Jubi-lee Celebrations.

Our last day came only too quickly and we spent the morning on a guided coach tour of many sights, stopping first at Buckingham Palace to see the guards. The final destination for our trip was Stratford and in particular the Olympic Park. We circled the whole area seeing all the various arenas and spent time on the platform in John Lewis, where we got an amazing panoramic view complete with telescopes to help!

Our final stop was Trafalgar Square and a visit to the National Gallery where we were able to see many of the famous paintings that we use in our art les-sons at school, such as Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” and various paintings by Mo-

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From our local Police Neighbourhood Beat Team … We are currently setting up a new Farm Watch scheme to help reduce rural theft and burglaries in the area. The scheme will run alongside current Neighbourhood Watch schemes and is aimed at anyone who has a farm or small-holding or is involved in the rural community. It is fully supported by Devon and Cornwall Community Watch As-sociation and the Police. This is a new initiative for us here in the Redruth area but has been run with great success throughout the rest of Cornwall. Signs, including street signs, and literature will be available. All members will be signed up to community messaging and will receive information and crime warnings from the police. We will be meeting with the coordinators in the near future and will publish more details when available. Stuart Church PC 6976 Neighbourhood Beat Manager Redruth South, St Day, Carharrack and Lanner

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Messy Church Some of you may have seen this advertised in St Day and wondered what it is. At Holy Trinity we were con-cerned at the lack of children attending church on Sun-days. There are so many other things happening on Sunday mornings, such as football, rugby, dance clas-ses etc., that children naturally want to attend. So, thanks to Father Simon’s suggestion, we looked into providing Messy Church for children on a Sunday after-noons, every 6 weeks. It was also an ideal opportunity for the Parish Church and the Methodist Church to work together and so, in September, Messy Church ar-rived in St Day. Children of all ages were invited to come along for 2hrs of craft (this is the messy part) and a story followed by tea. All free of charge! The first ses-sion was a great success and last week we held our third session and the number of children coming along has doubled. We could not have started without two generous do-nations from the Parish Council and the Mills Trust which enabled us to buy all the equipment needed for the craft sessions. So, a big thank you to both. The next Messy Church will be in the Methodist Church on March 17

th from 4-6pm and the theme will be “New

Beginnings-Messy Easter”. All children are welcome but they must be accompanied by an adult.

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net. We left Trafalgar Square at 4 p.m. and boarded our coach for the journey home to Cornwall.

The children had had such a very rich experience of life in our capital city, what it is to be British, a taste of multi-culturalism, as well as a great preparation for

both the Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations and the coming Olympic Games. It certainly was a truly memorable “Trip of a Lifetime”.

We would all like to thank the Mills Trust, St Day Parish Council and Carhar-rack Parish Council for their help with the finances without which many of our children would not have been able to take part.

Jenny Green, Head

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St Day Christmas Tree Festival

December 1st, 2nd, 8th & 9th were the dates of the inaugural Christ-mas Tree Festival.

There were over fifty trees spread throughout both Churches and their halls . . . not to forget the avenue of trees at the Old Church.

Over forty organisations from the local village and surrounding areas decorated trees, from the youngest at Sunny Days Nursery to the more mature villagers. Approximately 250 children took part making and decorating and about 150 adults put on their designing hats to come up with an amazing array of trees, one of the favourites being Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer decorated by the youth football team (the favourite reindeers were the ones with colds who had green noses!)

Events happened throughout the week with one of the highlights be-ing the Christmas Celebration led by Graham Homer & Marilyn Rich-ards under the lights of the trees in the avenue. The Burco Boiler pro-vided the mulled wine and the cooker was on overtime producing hot chocolate with marsh mallows for the non-drinkers.

The last of the trees were down by twelfth night and we are missing them and their light already.

Grateful thanks go to the organisers and both of the churches who supported the festival, but there would have been no festival without the support of the local organisations and their members who worked tirelessly to produce a wonderful festival of light, friendship and fun.

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Second Monday of every month ‑ Pop In ‑ 11:00 am ‑ 1:00 pm ‑ A chance for a soup and sweet lunch, chat and fellowship.

Tuesdays 2:30 pm ‑ 4:00 pm Bright Hour—a fellowship meeting for ladies and men.

Wednesdays 4th Wednesday of the month 12 noon for 12.15 Luncheon Club

1st and 3rd Wednesday—(not in Dec.)

Ray’s Bargain Bin 10.00-3.30pm

Thursdays 10.15 am Coffee, Prayer and Bible Study

Fridays

7:30 pm Fellowship & Bible Study

at 5 Carew Road, St. Day

Other special events are organized, details can be found on the Church door or notice board.

Contacts

Church services and activities -

Ralph Gilbert 821100

Junior Church – Bobby Dyer 820021

Hirings – Janet Homer 820881

The Methodist Church in

St. Day warmly welcomes you to share with

them in their events and activities.

Methodism has been present in St. Day for

many years. The Methodist Church and family seek to serve and follow

Christ's teaching as a group of believers and individuals. We extend the love of

God to all.

Friendly fellowship, transport no problem,

Comfortable surroundings, genuine

love and support

offered to all.

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The ‘Oil Club’ helps more people save on their fuel bills Residents are saving money on heating oil by having deliveries on the same day each month. By using an independent local supplier we not only get a discount but also have experienced good service in extreme weather!

To join in and save on your oil costs you need to order through Nigel Knight on 820441. You can also order

online by emailing your details and order to stdayoilclub@gmail.com.

In order to receive a discount you must place your order with Nigel, please do not phone our supplier direct, this could result in you getting a double delivery!

Deliveries are made on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

St. Day Community

Centre Located in the centre of the Village. For bookings and

enquiries contact Carol Jones on 01209 821403

Between 08.00 and 18.00

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St.Day Launderette 10 Church Street, Tel. 01209 820280

Service Washes

(Except Tuesdays and Sundays)

Double Loaders for Duvets etc. Monday to Saturday 8.30 to 7.00pm

Sunday 9.00am to 2.00pm

Can you help deliver this Newsletter? We have a list of around 20 willing helpers who have each volun-teered to deliver this newsletter to your door four times per year. Ob-viously we allow them time off to go on holiday and, of course, there are sometimes other very good reasons why they cannot deliver. In these circumstances it then falls to Steve Penny, who organises de-liveries, to arrange a substitute or, more often, to do two rounds him-self. It would be so much simpler if Steve had a reserve list of volunteers who were willing to step in to lighten his load when needed. If you are willing to help when one of our regulars can’t deliver or, indeed, are happy to go on a reserve list for a regular round, please contact Steve on 820774 or Nigel, the editor, at stdaynews@gmail.com Without volunteers there would be no Newsletter!

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Happy New Year to everyone, seems a long time since all the Christmas festivi-ties. Besides all the usual activi-ties of the sea-son, including our Christmas party,

there was the first ever Christmas Tree festival and what a brilliant suc-cess it was. We had great fun getting together to make decorations for our tree. Our carol was Joy to the World and we decided to make hearts from felt decorated with the word Joy in various languages, stars from old mu-sic and biscuit hearts. Besides the fun of working together what a good op-portunity for tea, biscuits and a chat. We were so pleased with the result we used the tree again at the aforesaid party. We had a lovely evening, which rounded off a very busy year what with Jubilee, Feast and our own 90th birthday. Even after a year with a lot of cooking everyone surpassed them-selves with the food for the buffet, with glass in hand we could relax and en-joy the entertainment provided by Proper Job and open our gift from Se-cret Santa. November we welcomed Phillip Rod-da, who kept us, fascinated with the history of his family and development of the company. Still on the original site, it started 160 yeas ago as a coal yard serving the mines, with the de-cline of the mining they began farming and like all farmer's wives Fanny, Phil-lip's grandmother, made clotted cream for the family and the great enjoyment of their visitors. They saying is "great oaks from tiny acorns grow" and it cer-tainly is true in the case of Roddas who now have a world wide business

reaching as far as Hong Kong and on-to to the tables of royalty. January was time to relax with Julia Steel of The Body Shop, although her introduction talking about skin and how much we shed per day made me want to rush home and start vacuum-ing. She continued by explaining what, ideally, should be ones routine of cleansing, toning and moisturising, this she later demonstrated on a will-ing volunteer. We then sorted ourselves into pairs, one receiving a squirt of hand lotion with which to give ones partner a hand massage, Now this should be wonder-fully calming and relaxing but I'm afraid some of us reverted to child-hood playing Pat a Cake and Round and Round the Garden etc. the room far from becoming a tranquil oasis erupted in squeals of laughter. Hopefully if we follow all of Julia's ad-vice we will arrive at out post Christ-mas meal at the Penventon with dewy complexions and soft ladylike hands, oh well there's no harm in hoping is there?

Forthcoming events February 13th No speaker. Annual meeting and election of officers plus homegrown entertainment, if we have time. March 13th Marlene's social evening. April 11th Cornish Evening May 8th Kevin Thomas the weatherman Meetings are held 2nd Wednesday of the month 7.00 p m in the Chuch hall. We were delighted to welcome a num-ber of new members last year, come along meet us and see what it's all about.

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News from St Day Historical & Conservation Society January 21013

St Day Historical & Conservation Society recently re-elected their Chairperson, Bernadette Fallon, Secretary, Mark Johnson, and Treasurer Joanne Laing, at their AGM. In her remarks, Bernadette informed members how their flagship project, at St Day Old Church, was really paying dividends because the local community was now 'owning' the building in the best possible sense, as a com-munity resource, and by making it the natural focus for village events such as the St Day Lantern Parade; it was even adopted for a high society wedding blessing in the autumn. Cornish Bard Kingsley Rickard then gave a fascinating presentation on The Harveys of Hayle. In 1803, whilst in his early twenties, Henry Harvey inherited his father John's blacksmith's business in Hayle, which he had brought in 1779 from Carnhell Green, Gwinear, and developed into a small foundry and engi-neering works at the western end of the Hayle Estuary, which would become known as 'Foundry.' This provided immediate competition for the famous Cor-nish Copper Company, brought from Camborne in 1759 to ship copper to South Wales for smelting, sited at Lower Ventonleague, at the eastern end of the estu-ary, now called 'Copperhouse' in memory of this enterprise. Formerly a smelting works at Camborne, the Cornish Copper Company soon diversified into engi-neering at Hayle, after realising it was better to send copper ore to the Welsh coalfields to be smelted there, rather than importing Welsh coal to smelt copper ore in Cornwall. A great commercial rivalry began with Harvey's. Meanwhile, one of Henry Harvey's sisters had married William West, an engineer from Hel-ston and contemporary of 'Captain Dick,' Richard Trevithick, (who married Jane, another of Henry's sisters, and was then working at Harvey's foundry,) by whom she had six children, but William soon died, and his wife not long after, leaving Henry to take in their orphaned children. Eventually he was to provide for twen-ty-one children, in spite of never marrying himself. He did, however, have a long-standing girlfriend, Grace Tonkin. The Harveys' engineering capability soon won them large orders, building the first Cornish Boiler to be used at sea - lead-ing to Harveys developing a “Steam Packet” merchant fleet of vessels plying between Hayle and Bristol. By 1834 Harveys had started a prosperous ship-building operation at Carnsew, constructing and launching vessels up to 4,000 tons. Richard Trevithick, meanwhile, in conjunction with William West and Ar-thur Woolf, had developed and perfected many of his most famous inventions, such as his renowned “Cornish” Boiler and Engine, his screw propeller for ships, and in 1804, the world's first railway locomotive, and, essentially also the world's first car with his steam-powered road vehicle. The Harvey family had the original White Hart Hotel in Foundry Square built in 1824, as an insurance poli-cy for Trevithick's wife. This is now the Masonic Lodge, next to its neoclassical replacement, also built by the family in 1838. By the 1850s Harvey engines were pumping three-quarters of London's water supply and, in the 1840s, in an unusual conjunction with their great rivals, the Cornish Copper Company, they

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These things have been in St Day and Gwennap

by Richard R Blewett

Strange events in a Board School, 1892 (first published in November, 1965)

The matters I am about to record could not have occurred in the Parish of Gwennap, but they occurred in the school I attended at Leedstown. The year was 1892; the headmaster’s name was Coom (he and his have long since passed through the portals). I was between 10 and 11 years of age and in that year there was a General Election. It was during that election that I obtained my baptism into the whirl of national politics. The two candidates were Arthur Strauss, a Conservative, calling himself a Liberal Unionist )a title out of date long ago) who promised to set all the mines to work once more, and Charles Augustus Vernon Conybeare, a full blooded Radical. Keir Hardie, the first So-cialist to be elected to the House of Commons, was elected MP for West Ham during that election – 1892. The Labour Party was not yet born. Conybeare lived at Fourburrow House – St Day was in his constituency. He had been a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. I have in my possession his copy of Spencer’s Faery Queene. My schoolmaster was an ardent Conservative and a great Imperialist ready to ‘help Lord Salisbury to maintain the integrity of the Empire’. It was 73 years ago and I remember that slogan on the political post-ers. I thought then it had a good sound about it. But now, for good or ill, that Empire has nearly faded away and in its place there is a British Common-wealth. On a day during the election there drew up on a piece of ground opposite the school a Conservative caravan pulled by two horses. On the caravan exterior were as many Conservative slogans as possible and from a short mast fixed to the caravan a Union Jack was flying. The Conservative agent – a Mr Cheux – a friend of Mr Coom – came into the school, was warmly greeted and the next thing I knew, each teacher of the 8 year olds and upward was writing on his or her blackboard these words – Come boys, rally round the Union Jack; Come boys, rally round the Union Jack; Come boys, rally round the Union Jack And vote for Arthur Strauss! Glory, glory hallelujah, etc. And vote for Arthur Strauss. After learning the words by simultaneous methods we practised singing it to the tune, ‘John Brown’s Body’. As I sit in silence and solitude I can hear the

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Preparations by The Day-light Group for this year’s lantern celebration are well under way.........

This year we are reaching for the stars with not only a bigger procession, fea-turing community made lanterns and lanterns from The Eden Project, but The Day-light Group is also proud to present on the same evening of March 2nd

Paper, Scissors, Stone – a stun-

ning Magic Lantern Show!!!

This is your chance to see the Old Church in a totally new and most col-ourful light. Starting at 6.15 a beauti-ful, site-specific, animation, conceived by Holly Summerson and Jasmine Cole, using memories, photographs, video and drawings all gathered from the community, will be projected onto the whole of the front of The Old Church, accompanied by a soundtrack of local singing, music and narration.

This is a most exciting and extraordi-nary project that is totally unique to St.

Day and free to watch!!!

Viewing time is estimated to be 15 minutes and it will be repeated through the evening until 10pm – there will be limited seating for those who need it and 5 minutes intermission to allow au-diences to change.

It will be necessary to restrict viewing to groups of approx 60 so there will be refreshments in the Church Hall whilst you wait, and to enjoy whilst you watch.

This event will take place even if it rains!

As this is a new event for us, please be patient with us should there be any technical or logistical difficulties.

We would like to give massive thanks to our funders for Paper, Scissor, Stone:

Cornwall Councillor’s Community Chest

Do you want to make a lantern, and

be part of the procession?

Workshops are in St Day & Carharrack Community School on Sat 23rd and Sun 24th Feb from 10-4 and afte school workshops are on 26th, 27th and 28th Feb from 3.30- 5pm (same venue).

All children under 10 must be accom-panied by an adult.

£1.00 per lantern to cover cost of an led light.

The Lantern Celebration will take place on Sat 2nd March starting at The

Town Clock at 7pm.

Led by Haylestorm Samba, we will go right onto Fore St., right down Tele-graph Street to North Corner, down Telegraph Hill and right along the lane into Mills Street, left into Scorrier St, into Church St and finish at The Old Church. If you don’t want to take part, come out of your houses to watch!!

Many thanks to Cornwall Councillor’s Community Fund and St Day Parish Council

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echoes of it silting back through 7 decades. Messrs Coom and Cheux then mar-shalled us in the school playground and led us in procession singing our souls out, marching round the caravan – more than 150 of us. Then a pause, horses and caravan were turned and we proceeded through the village to the great admiration of the inhabitants thereof; for everybody in the village was a Con-servative except my father who was a Conybeare’s man, and he was in the Transvaal digging gold and cultivating silicosis There remained only one man who wanted to protest against political party propaganda being imposed on the pupils of a rate-maintained school but he was in an insignificant minority and discretion was victorious over valour. And what did the 5 members of the Crowan School Board say about what would now be regarded as an outrage? Nothing. I doubt if they ever heard about it. Even if they had heard, they were all good Conservatives and would have regarded both schoolmaster and elec-tion agent as having done an admirable thing. The Kerrier Rural District Council didn’t come into existence till two years later in 1894. The Cornwall County Council had been in existence only 4 years – 1888. The Board School would not come under County Council control until after 10 years – 1902. So the Par-ish School Board was the only Court of Protest. Such an incident in these days would provide big headlines in the newspapers and as for the Cornwall Educa-tion Committee – its members would be dumbfounded! According to W S Gil-bert (Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe) – That every boy and every gal, That’s born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative! Well, Coom and Cheux decided that any boy or girl born a ‘little Liberal’ should have a truncated expectation of life! You may be interested to know I joined heartily in the demonstration and was well and truly baptised into the Conserva-tive Party. Next day I was wearing a red, white and blue rosette – not yet 11! That same year another incident occurred that played an important part in my life. Britain had its finger in the world’s big pie on various parts of the crust. 11 years before England had been defeated by the Dutch Boers at Majuba, we bombarded Alexandria and occupied Cairo 10 years before. Only 7 years earli-er Khartoum was captured and General Gordon was slain. 6 years, and we an-nexed Upper Burma. At any time the boys of the Board Schools would be want-ed tyo fight the oft-recurring little wars. So Mr Coom thought he should begin training us for it as early as possible. Just outside the playground boundary hedge was a mine burra. I have looked at it several times recently in my old age and it doesn’t seem very high or very steep but to us boys in 1892 it looked slightly formidable. The headmaster decided to have the burra fortified with a thick turf rampart round the border of the summit. We were told to bring shovels to school and during playtime we scoured the countryside for turf. At last the rampart, about 4 feet high with castellated top, was finished. All the boys over 10 were enlisted in the army and trained to rush up the rather slippery burra sides. We were divided into two companies – one to attack and one to defend

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the fortress behind the rampart. Our only weapons were our fists. I was in the attacking company. Colonel Coom stood at the end of the line and after what seemed a long time he gave the order to ‘Charge!’ Talk about the Light Bri-gade at Balaclava! Up we rushed, loose stones flying from behind us. I man-aged to get over the rampart and soon afterward I was down and a big soldier with hobbed boot soles stood on my face. I think I must have been regarded as hors de combat. I don’t remember if my company captured the fortress but I know that after the rampart was repaired the company which first attacked (my company) became the defenders, and so the game continued. Those who sur-vived unhurt probably enjoyed it. Mother wanted an explanation of my badly mauled face. I told her we had a fight – a battle at school. ‘My head was bloody but unbowed’. Colonel Coom must have been very happy about it and the boys too – ever after. 24 years after the battle for the fortress in 1892 it was my turn to report for ser-vice in His Majesty’s Forces fighting the Germans in the 1914-18 war. So I joined the Royal Navy. I had had enough of army life all those years ago and I remembered and survived. A last word about life and work in a Board School. A certain part of the teach-ing staff consisted in Pupil Teachers – apprenticed to the teaching profession with indentures duly signed on a form with a 10 shilling (50p) stamp. I have my indentures before me as I write, dated August 7th, 1897. The Clerk of the School Board swore, the headmaster swore, even my mother swore and for the first time in my life (but not the last) I swore. My total income for the 4 years was fixed at £36 and mother must ‘feed, lodge and watch over’ me. With this last duty she had her work cut out, as they say. And again I survived. But mother – requiescat in pace.

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built a massive 144-inch cylinder, known, as the 'Cruquius' engine, to reclaim the 70 square mile lake at Haarlem in Holland, and in the 1880s made another massive engine to drain the Severn Tunnel. The 'great Mr Harvey,' as Henry was known, originally lived at Foundry House, Foundry Square, since rebuilt. In January, Truro Diocesan Stained Glass Consultant, Michael Swift, presented the Society with a masterly illustrated biography of the remarkable Henry Martyn; A Cornish Hero. Commemorated in several windows of Truro Cathe-dral, Henry Martyn's life was short but highly memorable; he made an out-standing contribution to Christian missionary work in the Middle East, not least by translating the New Testament into Persian and other native languages. Having lost a fortune in stocks and shares, after a glittering academic career at Cambridge, Henry joined the East India Company to earn a living and, upon reaching the subcontinent, proceeded to evangelise the native population, es-tablishing schools and hospitals before embarking for Persia, now Iran, where he entered into scholarly disputations with their doctors of religion, using per-suasion and intellectual arguments to win converts to Christianity. The Baptistry in Truro Cathedral is dedicated to his memory. His inspirational diaries, pub-lished posthumously, were a Victorian best-seller.

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A New British Citizen for St. Day

Gillian Thomas, a valued resident of St Day, attended a ceremony held at County Hall as the final step along the road to becoming a British Citizen.

Gill was born in Pontiac, Michigan USA and came to England along with her parents and sister as a child in the 1960s. She grew up in Cornwall, married and settled in St Day, where she still lives with her son, Nick. Following recent changes in the Immigration Laws, Gill decided to pursue her dream of being British and following several months of form filling, was advised that her application had been accepted. The British Citizenship ceremony took place on 02 November 2012 and Gill was ac-companied by Nick, her friends Tessa and Geoff Salmon, along with Geoff Nankivell who was so helpful in the long preparation stages.

In the photograph with Gill is Jim Currie, Leader of Cornwall Council and Michael Williams Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall. Gill was presented with a certificate along with a lapel badge made of Cornish Tin to mark the oc-casion.

Unfortunately there is no such ceremony to become Cornish but surely Gill is also accepted as an honorary Cornishwoman!

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Holy Trinity Church May I take this opportunity from us all at the Rectory to wish you all a very hap-py and Blessed new year.

What a wonderful December we had in St Day with the Christmas Tree Festi-val, school nativities and carol services etc., leading up to and through the Christmas period and it was wonderful to share once again such joys as a community.

As a clergy team we have decided to each write an article for the parish maga-zines throughout the Eight Saint’s Cluster and the first article comes from Rev’d Peter Knibbs.

With love and prayers as we journey through 2013 together.

God Bless

Fr. Simon

The Way

I watched a film in the autumn called “The Way” starring Martin Sheen as a be-reaved father who decided to continue a pilgrimage, started by his son before the son’s untimely accidental death. The pilgrimage was along the Camino de Santiago towards the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela where relics of St James are venerated. I found the film was moving and thought provoking. As a result, Santa brought me a guide book about the ‘Way of St James’ and now the idea of a month’s sabbatical in a few years time so that Yvonne and I can walk the Camino ourselves is an ambition we look forward to.

Perhaps you also have been making plans for your holidays later this year? You may study the glossy brochures and the websites to help you decide on the best travel plans, the right destination and the best tour guide. Have fun both in the planning and the trip.

There is an inspiring Old Testament passage from Isaiah chapter 35. The short chapter talks about the joy of God’s people as He opens eyes that were blind, ears that were deaf, and tongues that were dumb to behold the glory of the Lord. The passage goes on to talk about “a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.” A road of gladness and joy leading to the renewed Jerusalem.

This is a Biblical ‘glossy brochure’ advertising a destination that anyone can book, without money or price. It is a five star, gold rated choice that I highly

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recommend. A journey along the “Way of Holiness” to the New Jerusalem, in the happy company of other pilgrims, with the only tour guide who holds entry tickets to the City.

How might you book your place? The Diocese of Truro, throughout 2012, has been promoting a small glossy brochure of its own, entitled “Way of Life”. It is a route map for pilgrims showing how to plan and order our lives as we journey with others towards God. Copies are available in the Eight Saints Churches or from Diocesan House in Truro. So my hope and prayer is that we shall all be traveling the Way together, following Jesus who called himself ‘The Way, the Truth, the Life.”

May God Bless you as you journey through 2013.

Peter Knibbs

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Parish Council

News Parish Councillors

Pippa Bray 820446 Bobby Dyer 820021 Jim Moores 820160 Geoff Nankivell 820201 John Newcombe 820841 Steve Penny 820774 Lesley Trotter 820733 Clerk to Parish Council Steve Edwards 821829 Cornwall Councillor Mark Kaczmarek 211366 Please note the Parish Council now meets in the Community Room at the bottom of Mills Street. There is car parking available in Barracks Lane. Parish Council Elections will be held on 2nd May - please see sepa-rate notice for details. Town Clock As it appears that it is the wish of residents, the Parish Council decided at its December meeting to proceed with seeking fund-ing for the renovation of the clock tow-er, with a view to taking over owner-ship. The clock mechanism has not been serviced for over 3 years and residents may have noticed that be-fore Christmas it kept stopping for no apparent reason. Although it now seems to be keeping time, one face is not working as one of the brackets

supporting the hands on that face has rusted through and the mechanism has had to be disconnected. The oth-er 7 brackets are also badly corroded as are the 4 steel joists supporting the roof and belcote. The Parish Council has met with a Chartered Building Surveyor who spe-cialises in work on historic buildings and has appointed him to manage the project as some of the work is quite specialised, being on a Listed Building Grant awarding bodies also require detailed specifications of work to be done, prepared by suitably qualified professionals. Funding bodies also ex-pect the Parish Council to commit funds to the project, which the Parish Council will have available. Any grants will only cover the initial work and not ongoing maintenance. Council Tax The Parish Council has set the precept (that is the amount we ask Cornwall Council to collect from residents) for the coming financial year against a background of uncer-tainty. We have estimated our require-ment without knowing the level of pay-ment we will receive for work carried out on behalf of Cornwall Council (grass cutting in the closed church-yard, footpath trimming and opening the toilets). If the Parish Council does not do the work it will probably not be done by CC. Also we may find that Cornwall Council cuts back on grass cutting etc., on open spaces in the parish. We also have to allow for the cost of a Parish Council election in May. In previous years central government has covered the cost of giving Council

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Artwork by children from St. Day and Carharrack Community School. They have been studying Egypt Top right by whole class Bottom Left by Keziah Bottom Right by Louise Next page Top Left by Freya Top right by Miaia P Bottom Left by whole class Bottom right by K C Jane

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More artwork by children from St. Day and Carharrack Community School. They studied the work of the Joan Miro and discussed the struc-tures, forms and what message the artist was conveying

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Ofsted have sent the school a letter saying that they have carried out an interim assessment of the school which has given us some ex-tremely good news. Ofsted is the government body responsible for school inspections and monitoring standards and you will recall that we were inspected back in 2009 and declared that we are a good school. The interim assessment is like a health check and Ofsted have con-sidered the following: pupil attainment, special needs and disabled pupils pupil progress especially progress made by different groups of chil-dren attendance inspection visits carried out since 2009 any complaints by parents and carers any other issues brought to the attention of Ofsted including by the local authority Ofsted have said that they are pleased to inform school that the inter-im assessment shows that performance has been sustained and they have decided that the school will not require another inspection until the Summer term 2014 at the earliest.. We were due for inspec-tion as part of the usual routine at some stage during this term. This means that all the hard work by teachers, support staff, parents, children and community is recognised and praised at government level. However school is not in the least complacent and continually reviews policy and practice with the help of all involved in the school for the benefit of the children. The governors of the school wish to add their praise and thanks to the whole school community for hard work so publicly rewarded. Richard Carter, Chair of Governors.

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Tax Relief to those on low income. This grant is being reduced and at the time of writing the precise effect on parishes is uncertain as policy is still being con-sidered at County Hall, but it will cause an increase in the Parish Council Tax. Vandalism Vehicles have been driving over the grassed areas at Carew Road and by the Parish Church, damaging the grass and plants. We ask anybody who sees any acts of vandalism taking place to phone the Police on 101 and to note vehicle descriptions and regis-tration numbers. Planning Inquiry The planning in-spector has dismissed an appeal against an enforcement notice for breaches of planning regulations on land off Brickworks Hill, but there is now an appeal against the Inspector’s decision and this will be heard in the High Court. Community Events We are sure that everyone would wish to express their thanks to all those who worked so hard to brighten up St Day over the Christ-mas period. The Christmas Tree Festi-val supplemented the usual display of Christmas Lights. It was good to see so many local groups contributing and working together to decorate over 50 trees. We have the Lantern Parade to look forward to on Saturday 2nd March at 7pm. This promises to be an even more impressive event this year. (For details please see the poster else-where in this newsletter). Housing Developments Discussions are continuing between the owners of the overgrown property at Vogue to-gether with the adjoining property,

Cornwall Council and a firm of devel-opers. Discussions are also taking place for a development at Telegraph Hill, which may include a Doctor’s Sur-gery. Litter Pick Saturday 2nd March meet in the Community Centre back room at 10am to tidy up around the village. Recycling Collections are fortnightly and we would ask residents to put out their recycling on the correct week and in time for the collection. If you miss the collection please take the material home and put it out for the next collec-tion. If it is left out, not only is it untidy, but it could be classified as fly tipping and lead to prosecution. The end of the lane at West End is a particularly bad spot. One Stop Shop The Redruth One Stop Shop is now located in Redruth Library in Clinton Road and can handle many of your dealings with Cornwall Council. Police To report incidents and suspect-ed crimes ring their new number 101 If it is an emergency ring 999 These incidents are then added to the crime statistics for the area, this is not the case if you ring the local team on 01209 202324 Chairman John Newcombe 820841 Clerk Steve Edwards 821829

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Christmas Savings Club - free to join, for use in the shop when needed

Milk - we only sell Rodda’s Milk sourced from farms within 30 miles of the store.

Bread - a new range of local uncut bread delivered 5 days a week

Lottery - you can play the Health Lottery. Match 3 numbers and win £50

Coal - from £7.49 a bag. Logs - £3.00 a bag. Delivery available

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Day and Carharrack Community School

Exciting Times Ahead Over the last year the school has been exploring the potential of working more closely with neighbouring schools. The school has always had good relationships going back several years with Redruth School. Other local schools have also been discussing the possibility of developing a more formal bond. After a period of consultation with parents, children, staff and other interested groups the school with Redruth, Treleigh, Lanner, Penno-weth and Stithians as further partners has decided that a more formal ar-rangement is a very positive direction for the school. The reasons for this are varied and it is really a further move towards greater control and management of the school by the school. For the past 25 years schools have been managing much more of their finances follow-ing local authorities devolving more and more funding. This has meant that they have had greater choice but in many cases have bought back into lo-cal authority services – many offering important advice and support. How-ever this has changed and is about to change even further as schools will have even greater control over their futures. We are not diving into the unknown but will form part of the Redruth Learn-ing Group Trust with our partners. This is a partnership based upon the Co-operative Society philosophies and the trust will become a Co-operative Trust – one of more than 2000 at present in the country. This is not new ground as there are already a number of such trusts in Cornwall, such as Helston and Lizard, whilst others are in the process of formation. As a group we have had invaluable support from experts to guide us through the process of becoming a trust as well as the support of Cornwall Council. There are many advantages to the trust in that we will all be able to share a wide range of experience, knowledge and expertise from teaching and learning, to administration and management. Too often it is easy to operate in isolation but by setting up collaborative ways of working we can all learn from each other. There are other benefits to be considered such as the co-operative procurement of resources, sharing contracts for grounds mainte-nance, minor repairs and expertise in financial management, staff training etc. The school already employs a bursar to monitor our school budget and a company to carry out grounds work such as grass-cutting, pitch and track marking and weed control.

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Plenty of parking & disabled access.

Come along to this monthly market and enjoy an array of local organic produce, arts and craft stalls both inside and outside the Mills Hall. See some of the best locally sourced produce in the Mills Hall, Carharrack. All this available along with cakes, sandwiches and drinks in The Tea Room with Amy & Gill.

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STROKE APPEAL

This does not mean that we will be cast adrift from Cornwall Council. There will be council representation on our trust board. There will be council services that will be statutory and others we will consider buying back. However there is a certain strength in working together so that we can operate more efficiently, more effectively and make our funds go fur-ther. Once the final paperwork has been completed the trust board will be set up. It will be made up of governor and head teacher representatives from each partner. Approaches will be made to further education and higher education institutions to join the trust as well as local businesses. This will create a body that will be able to seek additional funding from local and national sources, manage joint projects and work collaboratively for our children, families and community. The school will look the same to outsiders– there will be no change of uni-form, no major re-branding or changes that affects the identity of the school or it's position in the community Richard Carter, Chairperson of Governors

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