Posts Tagged ‘past’

Hoping for sun for the Royal Cornwall Show

Posted on: 3rd June 2013 No Comments

  Not long now until this years Royal Cornwall Show and if the weather stays like this we will be great! This year we are sharing a stand with the Cornwall Records Office and the Cornwall Centre. Between us we will have on display a range of agricultural photographs from the archives, as well as […]

When the ivy takes over- down on Polgrean Farm

Posted on: 24th November 2012 6 Comments

The last couple of months have been busy collecting images, film and old photographs from Cornish farmers to make a series of ‘digital stories’ for the project. On my last trip to Polgrean farm at Gunwalloe John Hocking and myself explored an old cottage hidden in the valley at the bottom of Johns farm. This […]

Personal archives- farming

Posted on: 20th November 2012 No Comments

Last week the Royal Cornwall Museum kindly allowed us to explore some photographs from their archives. We had a great afternoon with some interesting memories, discussions and discoveries. For those that missed this, here are a few beautiful photographs that were kindly donated to us on the day by Hilary Trump from Gunwen. Many of […]