Everything you want to know about the history of St Agnes Parish
We actually had a flurry of visits to the Museum just before we closed which greatly helped us reach the magic number of 5000 visitors. We were delighted to welcome Curnow School from Redruth, Year 5 from St Agnes Primary School, St Agnes Chamber of Commerce and then St Agnes Cub Pack and their leaders.
Read more about visitors to the museum in 2011
In the autumn we dipped into our New Purchases Fund to buy as one lot, two separate sets of auction particulars relating to the Basset’s Tehidy Estate. Only one set was Parish-related, giving details of land for sale in Porthtowan, on Mulgram Hill and at Chapel Porth, so we were delighted when, thanks to the efforts of one of our members, the other set was sold and the Museum was able to show a profit on the overall transaction.
Our John Opie presentation paintbox is currently on display in the Long Gallery at County Hall, Truro, where we hope County Councillors will notice it. It forms part of a small display of items from Cornwall’s smaller museums.
Warmest congratulations to Museum member and former Treasurer, Tony Mansell, on being made a Bard of the Gorsedh “For services to Cornish heritage and research”. Tony’s Bardic name is Skrifer Istori, or Writer of History. Two Committee members, Clive Benney and Peter Thomas, are already Bards.
For many years the Committee, and especially its Chairman Roger Radcliffe, has been searching for a photo of the Museum building showing its bell tower, so imagine our pleasure when this photo was emailed to us. It was taken from the rear of the building, with the door into the sexton’s store, now replaced by a window, clearly visible, together with a lot of ivy. The bell tower was unfortunately removed when the roof was replaced in the 1970s.