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The Camborne / Redruth / Hayle Gazette December 2012


Lottery boost for unique mine museum


THE King Edward Mine Museum near Camborne has been awarded a Your Her- itage grant of £35,700 by the Heritage Lot- tery Fund to encourage more people to visit, learn about and enjoy its facilities. The grant, which covers King Edward Mine Museum, its natural setting and the wider Great Flat Lode, has been match- funded with £10,000 from Cornwall Council and £2,477 from the Rural Development Pro- gramme for England.


King Edward Mine is the oldest complete mine site left in Cornwall and the entire complex of buildings is designated Grade II Listed. The whole site is within the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.


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For more than 100 years it served as the practical teaching site for the Camborne School of Mines.


The site contains engine houses, an origi- nal Holman winding engine, a calciner for cleansing arsenic from tin concentrates, a number of buildings such as the count house, carpenters’ shop, winder and compressor houses, and the mill containing a range of working tin-dressing machinery that repre- sents the last of its kind in the world. The funding will support the development of a larger programme of events and activi- ties for families, local people and schools, building on the brilliant success of the 24th International Mining Games held at the mine earlier in the year.


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Making a splash! Great fundraiser for West Indies tour


STAFF at Carn Brea Leisure Centre Trust, in Pool, have been working voluntarily to help the Cornwall Schools’ Cricket Association with an excit- ing fundraiser.


The event, planned by par- ents with the help of the leisure centre, was organised to raise money for the Corn- wall under-15 cricket tour of the West Indies, which is due


to take place from April 5-20, 2013.


The tour will include vis- its to Barbados and Trinidad, and will involve eight matches against the Trinidad and Barbados na- tional teams.


The fundraising evening included a private fun ses- sion with the leisure cen- tre’s pool inflatable, the Carn Brea Croc, plus burg-


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ers and hot dogs for every- one after they had dried off. A total of £650 was raised which will be donated to Cornwall Schools’ Cricket Association to help cover the cost of the tour, which is estimated at around £35,000.


Fantastic


Jordan Thomas, of Cam- borne School and Commu- nity College and Troon Cricket Club, has been se-


lected for the tour and was part of the fundraising event at Carn Brea.


He said: ‘On behalf of the team I would like to thank Carn Brea Leisure Centre Trust, centre manager Barry Holding, and all the staff for staging this fantas- tic event which was en- joyed by everyone who took part.


‘This has helped provide


an incredible boost for our fundraising.’ Barry Holding, centre manager at Carn Brea Leisure Centre, said: ‘As a charity ourselves we appre- ciate the importance of fundraising and it’s been an honour to provide our support and help to send 14 talented young people on an unforgettable sporting adventure.’


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