It’s #MuseumWeek 2017 and once again our turtle is joining museums big and small for the international online event which celebrates all things from cultural institutions. Every day of the week has been given its own hashtag (with a week-long theme of Women and Culture) but it’s up to the turtle how he interprets it!
All week: #WomenMW
Who better to represent #StAgnesMuseum for #womenMW than Joyce Gribben of Trevellas one of the Bal-maidens who toiled at our #tin mines. pic.twitter.com/wS5tmp6MLr
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 18, 2017
Monday: #FoodMW
Don't think you'd want this 1950s St Agnes #civildefence emergency catering group providing refreshments at our museum! #foodMW #womenMW pic.twitter.com/OR3gAnjYtT
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 19, 2017
In early 1900s many #StAgnes shops were run by women. Violet Whitta sold confectionery to generations of children #foodMW #womenMW pic.twitter.com/FHboyJ79GY
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 19, 2017
The wonderfully-named and apparently immaculate Minty Borlase sold ice-cream and soft drinks from her tiny shop into the 1960s. #womenMW pic.twitter.com/iCmBhKDMJY
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 19, 2017
Tuesday: #SportsMW
Women's football nothing new in #StAgnes – this Ladies Football team from 1950-1 look as though they mean business! #sportsMW #womenMW pic.twitter.com/ZEnm1yTbqT
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 20, 2017
Women competed in sheaf-pitching, popular at sports on the beach in first half of last century. #sportsMW #womenMW pic.twitter.com/nf3LnrP22z
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 20, 2017
Our main sport in #StAgnes is surfing: we produce top-class surfers and have fun with wooden belly-boards #sportsMW pic.twitter.com/xQICKxRuR8
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 20, 2017
Wednesday: #MusicMW
How about cooling down with a Christmas carol? Composed by St Agnes man John Rogers d. Christmas Day 1911, sung in Chapel for 50yrs #musicMW pic.twitter.com/8EAjBUtYXw
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 21, 2017
Lovely pic of #StAgnes Sunday School children marching to a tea treat behind the town band in 1911 #MusicMW pic.twitter.com/j4vNRi1UaW
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 21, 2017
Close-up of #StAgnes band of 1911. Sad to think that many of them would soon be enduring the horror of WWI #MusicMW pic.twitter.com/6cYxYnyBEJ
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 21, 2017
Thursday: #StoriesMW
It is said that Giant Bolster could stand with one foot on #StAgnesBeacon, one on Carn Brea 6 miles away #storiesMW pic.twitter.com/xaghcvgbfA
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 22, 2017
The ghost of Dorcas was said to haunt Polbreen mine in #StAgnes after she threw herself down the shaft. #storiesMW pic.twitter.com/oCuNug6ZBC
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 22, 2017
Lt Harold Twite's watch stopped at the time he was killed tunnelling under German lines in WWI. It was donated to #StAgnesMuseum. #storiesMW pic.twitter.com/0o9Goer14n
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 22, 2017
Friday: #BooksMW
A best-seller at our local museum this is the first of Clive Benney's photographic histories of #StAgnes #BooksMW pic.twitter.com/TgPrYOlywy
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 23, 2017
M H Bizley's delightful history of #StAgnes illustrated by his wife is a well-loved standard in our museum bookshop #BooksMW pic.twitter.com/pHgGj8dikn
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 23, 2017
Although Winston Graham lived out of the parish there's no doubt that Poldark Country was the rugged mining landscape of #StAgnes #booksMW pic.twitter.com/wG4jlvBMI8
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 23, 2017
Saturday: #TravelMW
Unemployed tin miners were encouraged to emigrate to Australia for free. Wouldn't have been an easy trip! #travelMW pic.twitter.com/VD5RvOwgMb
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 24, 2017
Lady Agnes sailed between Cornwall & South Wales exchanging tin for coal. Its figurehead is in the museum #travelMW pic.twitter.com/udq13ouM9g
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 24, 2017
From 1903 to 1963 the Chacewater to Newquay branch line carried #StAgnes folk to work,school and shopping #travel MW pic.twitter.com/Dwy9u7JDuS
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 24, 2017
Sunday: #HeritageMW
Once a chapel of rest #StAgnesMuseum is custodian of the heritage of a mining town on the Cornish coast. #HeritageMW pic.twitter.com/HRrSUOhSm7
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 25, 2017
A #WorldHeritageMining site, St Agnes is rich in industrial history . Its story is told in the Museum #HeritageMW pic.twitter.com/tVjWAu23IB
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 25, 2017
Find out more about the mining heritage of Cornwall on your next visit to #StAgnesMuseum #HeritageMW pic.twitter.com/ToGuZNxQRX
— Leatherback Turtle (@stagnesturtle) June 25, 2017