St Agnes Museum

St Agnes Museum Trust will hold its 41st Annual General Meeting at the Methodist Church Hall, British Road, St Agnes on Thursday 27 February at 7.30pm.

After completion of business and refreshments, Museum Vice Chairman and Cornish Bard, Clive Benney, will give an illustrated talk: “Early St Agnes Policing”.  Visitors will be most welcome for a small charge of £1.

Items from the Museum Shop will be on sale and there will be a chance to pay subscriptions or join the Trust.

Despite the torrential rain and gale force winds of Storm Bert the Museum held a very busy and successful Coffee Morning in the Church Hall on Saturday 23 November.

The crowds were drawn not only by the stalls and delicious coffee but by an extensive exhibition of photographs and film from the first 30 years of St Agnes Surf Life Saving Club curated by Museum Vice Chairman and local author Clive Benney. Many early members of the Club came to reminisce and view photos of their youth.

Coffee and tea raised £83, the cake stall, packed with cakes and scones, £110, a Museum shop stall £148, Cornish books £50 and the raffle raised a record sum of £182. The Membership Secretary took £270 in subscriptions and a new Member joined. So the total raised was an excellent £843 and a very convivial morning was enjoyed by all.

St Agnes Museum is delighted to have bought at auction following the closure of the Shipwreck Museum at Charlestown a bronze port side rudder quadrant that was part of HM submarine E-43 which sank off St Agnes Head while under tow in November 1921.

This new artefact will be on show when the Museum reopens on 1 April 2025.

6 November 2024

Chairman, Roger Radcliffe, warmly welcomed Museum Stewards to their annual end of season Coffee Morning at the Museum on 6 November.  He thanked them for coming and read some of the many appreciative comments in the Visitors’ Book.  Among the suggestions Stewards had made were completing the Thomas’ Shaft Mine Model and raising the annual subscription.

Mike Furness, our Shop Manager, announced the top sales team as the Thursday Titans, who had sold £2309 worth of goods, with the runners up being the Wednesday Wonders with £1755.  The runners up for sales per visitor were the Sunday Saints (£2.28) behind the Thursday Titans.  The best Sales Day, stewarded by Clare Murton and John Oaksford, was Friday 27 September when an amazing £269 worth of goods was sold.  Overall, 2420 individual items were sold in the shop.

The total taken through the till this year, including the online shop, was £13,865 compared to £10,678 last year.

Best sellers were Clive Benney books (£1671), followed by Blue Hills Tin (£1427) and Baileys Bodmin Pewter (£1231).

Roger Radcliffe commented that these were tremendous figures to achieve.  He thanked Mike Furness, Stewards Rota Organiser, John Oaksford, and all the Stewards for their hard work and enthusiasm.