Author: St Agnes Museum

This season’s stats (courtesy of Liz Thompson)

4763 visitors (up on 4577 in 2013)

Including:

45 Australia
34 USA
30 Germany

as well as

2 Seychelles
2 Mongolia

Shop takings

£5241 (a new record!)

Where our visitors heard about us

• Local signing
• Word of mouth
• The Art Fund Guide
• BBC Spotlight
• ITV Westcountry
• Facebook
• Trip Advisor
• ‘We saw it when we got lost’
• Not to mention Clive Benny’s talks!

Visitors’ Book Comments

A wonderful local museum. Every village should have one.

A little treasure. Loved the Family Tree section.

Joanna Opie, a wonderful addition to this excellent museum.

Lovely re-interpretation since my last visit. Lovely staff.

Very well looked after and with family connections too! Llewellyn Twite was my grandfather.

Nice children’s activities. Thank you.

All in all a vintage year!

Our grateful thanks to everyone involved.

Crowds came to the Museum’s Coffee Morning on 1st November, a day so mild that we needed no heating in the Church Hall. In addition to the usual stalls, Vice Chairman, Clive Benney, had prepared an exhibition of old photographs of St Agnes Station to celebrate the recent acquisition of the Signalbox sign.

Members were delighted to learn that recently the Museum had bought a second train staff which had controlled the single track line from St Agnes to Perranporth thus complementing the Chacewater – St Agnes staff bought in 2009.

After a very busy morning, Treasurer, Sue Amor, was delighted to report that a total of £486 had been raised, while Membership Secretary, Mary Wilson, had take in £310 in subscriptions.

We are very grateful for everyone’s generous support.

On Saturday 8th November the Museum Committee hosted a Coffee & Cakes Morning for the Museum Stewards in appreciation of all their hard work during the season.  Thanks were expressed to them by Diana Good Dixon (Rota Coordinator), Mike Furness (Shop Manager), and Sue Amor (Treasurer), and also by Chairman, Roger Radcliffe, who presented long-serving Steward David Roper with a gift and card to mark his ‘retirement’ as a Steward.

We were delighted to welcome Year 3 of St Agnes Primary School to the Museum recently as part of their studies into Early Man. Everyone was able to handle flints found within the Parish at Dicky Pool Downs, in the Wheal Lawrence valley, and to see examples of an arrowhead, a greenstone axe, and a quern.

There was also a quiz to do, while they studied the first-floor exhibitions, and a look at the Great War exhibition.

We were very pleased to receive this colourful Thank You card!

In early July we were told that some interesting items from the old St Agnes Station were coming up for auction at Great Central Auctions in Warwickshire. They included a train staff similar to the one we bought for the Museum in 2009, but for the other half of the line, St Agnes to Perranporth, together with an enormous cast-iron sign, 72″ long, from the old signalbox, and pictured here, courtesy of Great Central Auctions.

Sadly we failed to purchase the train staff but were delighted that we managed to buy the sign after some frantic bidding. We are now arranging to bring it home to St Agnes and hope to have it on display soon.