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People, places, events and more… with St Breward connections
The De Lank Youth Club
First published in the March 2025 issue of the Community News Magazine One From the Archives – The De Lank Youth Club This month Trevor Ternouth shares his memories of the De Lank Youth Club. There used to be several youth clubs at different times that ran in St....
Trevor Ternouth’s School Days in St Breward
First published in the Community news February 2025 edition One From the Archives – My School Days (1946-1956) It must have been a daunting experience for this youngster aged four years 11 months to walk from 10 Penvorda Cottages to the village school at Hill, St....
St Breward Area Community Bus
One From The Archives - St. Breward Community Bus Following a recent ‘call to arms’ for help for our Community Bus, we feel that it is important to share its history. Did you know that St. Breward was the first village in the UK to own a community bus in 1983 due to...
The Glorious Game and others in St Breward
There are few sports now played within the village, but in the past it was the source of many players and the home of some winners. Archery – dates from the Middle Ages when all able-bodied men were required to practise to provide a military force for the monarch. The...
Leslie Albert Norman Watkins – fallen but not forgotten
Leslie Watkins – 1st Airborne Divisional Signals – Royal Corps of Signals – Rhine Crossing – Op Varsity.
Penpont
Above: Reading Room opening c1911, by Lady Onslow with a silver key, and St. Breward Silver Band St. Breward is often described as ‘Five hamlets in search of a village’. This month we are going to look at our furthermost hamlet to the south of the main village. The...
‘Tin-Tack’ – Leslie Williams
The unknown man in our December article has been identified as Leslie Williams. It appears that Leslie was known as 'Tin-Tack' and lived in a cottage near Chapel Terrace, in St. Breward. If anyone has any information on Leslie or other photographs, please do contact...
The Wenford Inn before Wenford Bridge Pottery
Above: Wenford Inn sketch by Pamela Bousfield The Wenford Inn and brew-house were built around 1834 to meet the demand created by the building of the Bodmin and Wadebridge railway. Inside the building there were numerous wooden partition walls which divided the Inn...
St. Breward School Team – 1987
For those of you who might know the young men that appear in this picture . . . a reminder that the photograph was taken 37 years ago! Back L-R: Michael Barnett, Kevin Cracknell, Philip Hoskin, Ian Turner and Jamie Cox. Front L-R: Neil Simpson, Dean Hill, Daniel...
The Simonward RAOB, 1959
The Simonward (St. Breward) Lodge of The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB) are seen here at a ‘Raising’ (award ceremony) at The Old Inn. Back Row L-R: Les Hockin, Ronnie Fox (Ireland), Unknown, Unknown, Les Williams and Bill Winn (seated). Front Row L-R:...
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