by DavidAdmin-05 | Mar 26, 2025 | General, People
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....
by DavidAdmin-05 | Mar 25, 2025 | General, People
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....
by DavidAdmin-05 | Mar 25, 2025 | General, People
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...
by DavidAdmin-05 | Mar 24, 2024 | General, People
Leslie Watkins served with 1st Airborne Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals and took part in the Rhine Crossing, during Op Varsity. Lance Corporal Leslie Albert Norman Watkins died on 24 March 1945 aged 24 and is buried at Venray Cemetery, in the...
by Jon Arnold | Mar 15, 2024 | General, People
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...
by Jon Arnold | Mar 15, 2024 | General
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...