St. Day Newsletter

Issue No.31 February 2010 Published by Action St.Day

and St.Day Parish Council

In this Issue

St. Day Old Church

Lantern Parade

Litter Picking

Local History

St. Day and

Carharrack

Community School

Sunny Days Nursery

Parish Council News

and lots more…….

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Help Needed A message from Bridget and Frank Williams

Burrows Ridge Animal Sanctuary, is now heading for retirement. For 33 years we have been taking in unwanted and needy animals and birds. Unfortunately age and finance is against us and we will not be taking in any more. We have 2 old horses, (one blind), I pony with cancer, 21 year old goat, 1 parrot, 40 chickens, 4 roosters, 8 cats and 8 dogs left with us. We shall keep, love and look after all of these until the Good Lord de-cides to take them. In the mean time food and veterinary bills have soared and we are finding it difficult to fund these. This is where you come in! We need old clothes, shoes, handbags, bedding (not pillows or duvets) material, china or other bric a bac that we can sell on for our cause. If you can help please ring 01209 820479 or 07779918006 or pop it down to Burrows Ridge.

St Day Winter Lantern Procession 2010

The Lantern Procession is planned for late February, with lantern making workshops during the

half term holiday. Look out for details on posters

around the village.

All ages welcome. Come and join in!

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Future of St Day Old Church

Many of you will remember that following the public meeting called by Action St Day, a Steering Group formed to explore the possibility of ac-quiring and developing St Day Old Church for continued community use. This group was recently asked by the Redundant Churches Uses Committee for some indication as to the likelihood of the community taking on ownership of the building. The Committee was due to meet on the 22rd January and we were led to believe that a decision regarding the future of the Old Church could be made at that meeting. Our re-sponse was as follows: "We feel the Old Church is a real asset to St Day and in recent years has seen increasing use by the community. It also has enormous poten-tial as a heritage centre within the the context of the World Heritage Site. We believe that it is within the abilities of the community to man-age such a centre once established. Indeed the Old Church Appeal Committee has been doing this for many years by enabling the public access conditions of past grants to be met by taking responsibility for opening up the church to visitors and facilitating its use by the school and community groups. However, ownership of a building of this age and status would involve a considerable financial commitment from the community both now and long into the future. The financial liability of ownership has also been increased by recent works carried out without Listed Building Consent, the cost of rectification of which would fall onto the new owner. Community ownership could only be considered if the Old Church could be developed into a centre that would generate an income to minimise reliance on grant funding. It is our view that the development required to put the Old Church on such a sustainable footing would require sub-stantial investment. In the light of the current economic climate fundrais-ing for such a project would be a long and difficult task that would need a skilled and dedicated team able to devote long hours to the project over an indefinite period. Whereas we have a number of people in St Day willing and able to freely devote time and effort to community projects, their commitments to existing projects and activities mean they are unable to take on something else of this magnitude. The recent death of Vernon Baldry has sadly diminished our ability to proceed with this project in particu-

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Sundays First Sunday of the month Family Worship at 10:30 am 6pm Evening Worship Other Sundays 10.30 Informal Worship 10.30 Junior Church 3pm Afternoon Worship Mondays 9:00 am Prayer meeting (Prayer requests can be left in the prayer box on the Chapel gate) 7:30 pm Fellowship & Bible Study (5 Carew Road, St. Day) Second Monday of every month - Pop In - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm - A chance for a soup and sweet lunch, chat and fellowship. Tuesdays 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Bright Hour (a meeting for ladies) Wednesdays 4th Wednesday of the month 12 noon for 12.15 Luncheon Club

1st and 3rd Wednesday—Ray’s Bargain Bin 10.30-4pm Thursdays 10.15 am Coffee, Prayer and Bible Study Other special events are organised and details can be found on the Church door or notice board. Contacts Weddings, Christenings & guidance:Rev Danny Reed 01209 217573 Church services & activities: Mr Ralph Gilbert 01209 821100 Junior Church: Mr Steven Pomfrett 07791950980 Hiring contact: Mr Gerald Triggs 01209 821327 Friendly fellowship, transport no problem, Comfortable surroundings, genuine love and support offered to all.

St. Day Methodist Church The Methodist Church in St. Day warmly welcomes you to share with them in their events and activities. Methodism has been present in St. Day for many years. The Methodist Church and family seek to serve and follow Christ's teaching as a group of believers and individuals. We extend the love of God to all whether regular worshipper, seeker or visitor.

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LIVING & LEARNING IN ST DAY Action St Day Group to make St Day a better place to !live and work

Two and a half years of work have paid off and St Day is to have a whole new play area at the Wheal Jewel Playing Field. The play equipment that is there was well past its sell by date years ago and the Action St Day Group with the help of Scott James, Bryony Nicholls and Mervyn Smallwood of Ker-rier District Council Regeneration team have put together £65,474 of funding granted by the Live-ability Community Pot, Cornwall County Playing fields Association, Cory Environmental Trust, St Day Parish Council, the Neighbourhood Renewal Com-munity Chest, Devon & Cornwall Housing, Living Spaces, the Local Network Fund, the Neighbourhood Community Chest Grant Fund, Lt. Comdr. J Mills, the St Day Jubilee Committee and the Action St Day Group. Quite a list but it’s quite a sum of money and it shows that the support is wide based. The project started with the selection of potential contractors and Rolf Necked of Kerrier DC Engineer-ing Service provided a select list and has kept in touch with the project right through and, since the completed play area is to be maintained by KDC, he will always be involved. Five contractors were asked to submit a scheme and their designs were exhibited at St Day & Carharrack School to be commented on by the pupils and their parents. As well as being shown at the school a public display was viewed at the Action St Day Group Annual General Meeting and from the comment

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These things have been in St Day and Gwennap

by Richard R Blewett

Part V Law and Order

Before 1869 the ‘Keeping of the Peace’ was the responsibility of the parish constables and the magistrates. In the early 19th century there was an alarming increase of crime in London where the constables, taking the line of least resistance, allowed criminals to escape instead of catching them. Robert Peel set up and organised a police force for the Metropolitan area with headquarters at Scotland Yard in 1829 and this was so successful that many criminals left London for provincial towns where parish constables made a criminal life easier. Eventually police forces were set up in the towns and the criminal classes retreated to the rural parishes. In St Day and Gwennap, where the population nearly trebled in the half century between 1801 and 1851, men were appearing in vast numbers from no one knows where – a mixed bag of saints and sinners. A new social class, the upper middle class, was getting a foothold here, deriving their riches from the mines and building houses the like of which was hitherto unknown in St Day and building high walls round them to serve as fortifications. The local government body – the Parish Vestry (the modern day equivalent is the Parish Council) – was composed of the middle and upper middle classes, who had everything to gain from conservation of the peace. That all governing bodies, from Parliament to Parish Vestries, were frightened, is shown by the fact that in the early 19th century there were about 220 offences for which the death penalty could be imposed. For example, it could mean death by hanging on the public gallows for stealing 5 shillings (25p) from a shop. The parish constable was unpaid until 1842 when ‘£26 per year was set apart for the payment of constables’. At a meeting of the Vestry on February 6th, 1839, the following resolu-tion was passed – ‘That a petition to the Honourable House of Com-mons be prepared on the subject of constables, praying that some law be passed without delay, to enable parishes to supply funds for the pay-ment of constables and otherwise for the prevention of crime’. At the time there were 13 parish constables and the annual payment for each

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was £2 per year. They were mostly working men and carried out their duties in their spare time. A way was found by the Parish Vestry to aug-ment the annual payment by providing special duties for the constables. One of them was ‘especially confined to the service of the Assistant Overseer’ as he went the rounds of St Day collecting the rates. Rate collecting was evidently a dangerous occupation and the sight of a con-stable’s stave prevented many a violent altercation. ‘It was proposed to give the constables a gratuity of £20 for the last year for visiting the beer shops (there were at least 16 of them in St Day), according to di-rections of the Vestry, on Saturday nights and Sunday’. That was in March, 1836. On Sundays, during Church services, beer shops and public houses were closed. The constable carried no written document of his appointment but the staff he carried was the symbol of his authority without which he could not commit to clink. He wore no uniform or outward mark of identity. The original Clink was the name of a prison in Southwark and was es-pecially in use in Devon and Cornwall for a small prison cell; a lock-up (Oxford English Dictionary). The word is still used in Cornwall. In the main hall in the Cornwall County Museum, Truro, 9 of these staves hang in a case. They are about 2 feet long and 5 of them have square striking ends which appear to have frightening possibilities when used with force on a recalcitrant head. The names of kings and queens are painted in gilt lettering – G.R.III; G.R.IIII; V.R. Even in 1837 there are signs that the constable organisation was being tightened up. ‘The £20 for the constables is divided amongst them ac-cording to the useful exertions of each individual constable and that a meeting be called where the constables’ books are to be presented as often as may be considered necessary’. What a wonderful find for the local historian if some of those constables’ books turned up in a St Day attic! In July, 1839, the constables were directed to apprehend and take before the magistrates all drunken and disorderly persons and the par-ish officers were desired to put the lock-up house in proper order for the reception of offenders. It appears that drunkenness and disorderliness were now misdemeanours. In 1842 it was found necessary to appoint 17 constables – 4 for St Day, 3 for Carharrack, 4 for Cusgarne but 6 for Lanner and Thomas Martyn was appointed Superintendent of Consta-bles at £5 per annum. Each constable’s book was to be produced to the Superintendent every Monday morning or the week’s pay was forfeited and, if not produced for 4 weeks, he was disqualified. In March, 1844, £30 was set aside for the payment of 2 efficient constables whose duty it was to enforce general order and make frequent visits to all beer and

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Bulky refuse (settees, chairs,

beds, televisions)

If you have an item that you

need to get rid of… please contact Cornwall Council on

01209 614000 and ask staff to send you a bulky refuse form.

There is a small charge for the Council to collect any bulky refuse. The first item is £5 then £2 for every additional item Once they receive your payment they will collect between 7 – 10 days

The alternative is to take your items to the tip.

Coastline housing does not remove waste of any kind!

Please arrange for all bulky refuse to be collected and keep St. Day clean and tidy!

Useful contact numbers

Cornwall Council 01209 614000

Coastline housing 08082 027728

Devon and Cornwall Housing 01872 267300

Please note:

All orange bins in the village can be used for dog litter

Please pick up after your dog.

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spirit houses and prevent persons from assembling in the different vil-lages and public highways. Thomas Martyn was made constable to re-ceive reports. Fines were to be paid to Thomas Martyn and appropri-ated as decided by the parishioners assembled in the Vestry. This pro-cedure seems to provide a new sidelight on parish history. Who im-posed the fines? How were the fines spent? In 1845 the state of the parish was reported by the constables to be in good order but some-thing was evidently wrong, for less than a year afterwards 28 consta-bles were appointed with 5 officiating constables at £7 each per annum. The ‘hungry forties’ were upon them. The emigrations to South Australia were taking place. There were riots and threats of riots in several parts of Cornwall. Revolutions were threatening in Europe. The metal market was falling. Mines were ceasing work. Unemployment was rampant and hunger and distress were stalking through the parish. The price of food had been rising for some time. In a later chapter we shall read of £750 being collected from the ‘landed, mining and other proprietors’ to help meet ‘ the present distressed condition’. It is difficult to believe the con-stables’ report that the ‘state of the parish was in good order’. Parish constables were still being appointed in 1862, 23 of them. By 1850 matters were on the mend. In a letter written in that year by my great-grandfather, a mine agent of Gwinear parish, to his daughter re-cently emigrated to South Australia, he said that Gwinear and Crowan were at the height of prosperity and that he was unable to get enough horses and carts to transport the ores raised. Both parishes were as Gwennap was – centres of mining. Even so, Gwennap was suffering from a wave of crime. On March 24th, 1864, the Parish Vestry had the following minute – ‘That applications be made in the proper quarter for the provision of a lock-up in the Parish of Gwennap and that a repre-sentation be made of the inefficiency of the police in keeping order in the populous parts of the Parish’. This is the first mention of police in the Minute Book. It appears the modern police had already begun to function in Gwennap and on such a small scale that with a high, though even already declining, population, they were helpless. As the police increased in numbers it was evident that by 1869 a measure of effi-ciency was attained and on March 24th, 1870, the Vestry appointed par-ish constables for the last time. Like the magistracy, the parish con-stabulary had rendered valuable unpaid service through centuries of local government. And now ‘the old order changeth, yielding place to new’. Comparatively few misdemeanours were mentioned in the Vestry Min-ute Book and access to the magistrates’ records is impossible to obtain.

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The Quarter Sessions’ records are preserved at County Hall, Truro, showing a large proportion of bastardy cases from other parishes be-sides Gwennap. In April, 1836, it was agreed to call Mary Manuel be-fore the magistrates for ill-using her daughter and at the same meeting one of the constables, Trestram Powning, was requested to call James Oppy, John Blamey, Walter Roberts, John Grigor, John Davey, William Allen and William Waters before the magistrates for breaking the Sab-bath. Details are madly missing. We have already written of the little civil war at the St Day Workhouse when Elizabeth Bray, Elizabeth Sel-kirk and James Knight fought each other on ‘Friday night and Saturday last’ and were hauled before the magistrates. There were far more seri-ous matters arising for the Workhouse authorities. On June 16th, 1788, it was reported that ‘several wanton women paupers have made it their practice to go off out of our poorhouse to the towns of Plymouth and Dock (now Devonport) and there straggle about like rogues and vaga-bonds. The Gwennap Guardians of the Poor desire they be sent to a house of correction and not be sent back again’. This was news in the ‘Sherborne Mercury’ (Dorset), a South Western local newspaper which flourished before the ‘West Briton’ began publication.

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St.Day and Carharrack Community School

Building and Refurbishment Plans

Work will begin later this term on refurbishing our school building. Plans include new pupil toilets, new floor coverings and new ceilings and lighting throughout the infants and the juniors, new purpose-built storage in all classrooms, replacement of all aluminium windows plus redecoration as well as remodelling our specialist areas – Funzone, Inspiration Station (Art & Craft area), ICT Suite, Foundation Stage Outdoor Learning and KS2 practical area. Work is scheduled to begin in March and due for completion by September. OFSTED Just before Christmas we had our Ofsted Inspection and last week the report was published. Overall we were judged to be a good school with several strengths. We would like to share with you some of those of which we are particularly proud: “The school has formed excellent partnerships with a wide

range of agencies and charities that work with families and children. This has led to outstanding relationships with parents and carers, who now rightly have full confidence in the school and the excellent care, guidance and support which they and their children receive.”

“A further strength is the outstanding way in which pupils are prepared for life in secondary school and beyond. Every opportunity is taken to develop their key skills through a range of subjects and contexts. Pupils also routinely and frequently use ICT to research and present their work. These features reflect the skilful teaching and good curriculum the school provides.”

“Pupils behave well, feel safe in school and very good relationships exist between pupils themselves and with adults. Very good support by teaching assistants enables all pupils to make equally good progress.”

“The dedicated staff team led by experienced senior and middle leaders has an accurate and sophisticated picture of the school’s strengths and weaknesses, and has taken many very effective actions to rectify the latter. The rapid improvements to pupils’ progress and attendance are testament to the

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school’s good capacity for further improvement. Governors are well led and play a full part in monitoring and evaluation, and in challenging the school to improve further.”

A copy of the full report is available at the school office.

BAL KOV - THE SEQUEL? The school has been successful, once again, in obtaining an “ Awards for All” grant to work with Cascade Theatre Group. This term Cascade have started weekly drama workshops with pupils in Year 5 and 6 which will lead towards writing the story and the drama for this summer’s production, involving the whole school and any members of the wider community who wish to be involved!

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St. Day W.I.

Meets at St. Day Church Hall. 7.30pm, every 2nd Wednesday of month

Secretary

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COPY DATE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE IS

1st May 2010

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Parish Council News The Parish Council normally meets on the second Monday of each month, (except in August), at 7:00pm in the Committee Room of the Community Centre. The meetings are open to the public (unless an item has to be taken in private) and agenda item 3 is always for public participation (limited to 15 minutes). It is sometimes necessary to ar-range extra meetings, often concerning planning applications. Notices of all the meetings are displayed on the notice board at least 3 days before a meeting. Minutes of meetings are displayed on the notice board and also on our web site www.stday.org Parish Councillors Pippa Bray 820446 Bobby Dyer 820021 Geoff Nankivell 01872 561061 John Newcombe 820841 Broderick Ross 822258 2 Vacancies Clerk to Parish Council Steve Edwards 821829 Cornwall Councillor Mark Kaczmarek 211366 News of Councillors It was with deep regret that we heard of the death of Vernon Baldry who sadly passed away on 4th December after battling with cancer for about 7 years. We extend our condolences to his widow Dianne and the fam-ily. On coming to St.Day he wanted to get involved and help the com-munity. He was the first chairman of Action St.Day and later joined the Parish Council and worked tirelessly for both organisations, as well as for the Trevithick Society and King Edward Mine. Vernon together with the Chairman represented this parish at various meetings and always took a keen interest in planning matters. Unfortunately we have also lost the services of Naomi Belert who has moved away from the area with her young family. Naomi was the Re-generation Officer for the Mining Villages before moving to St.Day and becoming a Parish Councillor. Naomi was nominated by the Parish Council as a governor of St.Day and Carharrack Community School. Unfortunately the vacancies occurred after the last issue of the newslet-ter was published. Local Government Legislation sets down the proce-dure and time scale for filling the vacancies. The statutory notices of the vacancies were posted and, as there was no request for an election, the Parish Council advertised the vacancies to be filled by co-option at

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its February meeting. Cornwall Council Ward Boundaries The Boundary Commission has now decided that as from the 2013 elections St.Day will join Carharrack and Gwennap in one ward and Lanner will join Stithians in another ward. This is what the 3 parish councils proposed at the start of the re-view. Index of Multiple Deprivation The government has produced statistics for deprivation across England, dividing the country into 32,482 areas, and ranking each area under a number of headings. . The ranking for St.Day under the various headings is: Income 12,483 Employment 9,438 Health, Deprivation and Disability 10,280 Education Skills and Training 10,721 Housing and Services 8,155 Crime and Disorder 22,508 Living Environment 5,926 Income Deprivation affecting children 19,416 Income Deprivation affecting older people 7,296 Overall St.Day is ranked 10,552 The lower the ranking the greater the deprivation. Much of the Cam-borne/Redruth area is ranked lower than St.Day. In Cornwall the most deprived area is part of Penzance ranked at 589, whist the least de-prived is Latchbrook near Saltash ranked at 30,477. Generally speaking the areas near Plymouth are less deprived and the western part of the county is more deprived Full details are available at www.cornwall.gov.uk/deprivationmap Street Cleaning Brian Chapman, son of Victor, has won the contract beginning in April for cleaning the streets. We hope he will be able to emulate the good work done by his father.

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Christmas Lights Thanks to the efforts of a small band of workers St.Day was looking bright over the festive season. Unfortunately some mindless vandals mutilated the Xmas tree in front of the St.Day Inn. Carols Again we must thank Carharrack & St.Day Band for leading the carols in Market Square. Fortunately the weather was dry and a large number of residents joined in the singing. We must also thank the ladies of the W.I. for serving the Mince Pies Parish Precept At the December meeting the Parish Council set its precept for 2010/11 at £12,240. This is a reduction on last year’s £13,922. Cornwall Council has agreed to continue to finance the grass cutting in the closed part of the churchyard and the opening of the toilets at the Community Centre for the coming financial year but there is no commit-ment for the following years. New Years Honours Congratulations to Sue Greenwood of Vogue Hill who was awarded an MBE for services to healthcare Remembrance Day Although the weather was not very good a larger number of residents than usual attended the annual service at the War Memorial. Again our thanks to Carharrack & St.Day Band for its atten-dance. Open Space Funds This is a sum of about £20,000 which should be spent in the parish to improve open spaces. The former Kerrier council earmarked some of this money to improve the open space at Trenant. Cornwall Council has now agreed to use the rest of the money to install a fitness trail of 10 pieces of equipment on the Wheal Jewel Playing Field. This equipment will be suitable for adult use. Tree Planting Our Cornwall Councillor is using some of his allocation of money to finance the planting of some trees on the Wheal Jewel playing field. This is being organised by the Nursery at the School. Action St.Day Officers have now come forward and the group is in a position to continue its work to improve St.Day. However there is al-ways a need for more support. Can you help in any way? Community Area Networks (Cornwall Council) The Camborne/Redruth network is the largest in the county and it is now proposed that it works as two sub groups; one covering the urban area and the other covering the Mining Villages as it is felt that the two areas have different problems and priorities Mining Villages Regeneration Group Representatives of the six par-

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Sunny Days Nursery .The Autumn term flew by and we were getting ready for Christmas before we knew it. All the children enjoyed creating displays

and cards based on a Christmas theme and they created some great snowmen from cotton wool, polystyrene cups and twigs. The pre-school child learnt some new Christmas songs and everyone was invited to join our Christmas Party in the school hall. Father Christmas came TWICE - once by helicopter and once (apparently) by motor boat. As the weather got seasonably cold children learnt the importance of dressing appropriately in the cold weather, keeping dry and taking their coats off when they came back in. All the children now have lockers so they can access their coats easily. In the mornings the sand garden was frozen hard and they talked about how this had happened and there was lots of ice to explore. Returning to Sunny Day’s after the Christmas break we were faced with broken heating and snow. This disrupted our first week back but parents, children and staff all had a very positive approach and made the most of the snow. We are collecting pictures of the children playing in the snow for their learning journeys. These are a record of the children’s time with us and are great to share with the children and their families. In the pre-school children are role playing Hospitals and

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learning about accidents. They have also been enjoying the ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ story. It has been great for all the children to get back out on the field now that it is a bit warmer. Our ICT equipment has been extended and children can now look at bugs and worms they find outside under a microscope. This has, of course, proved very fascinating and opened up a whole range of conversations and ideas. Sunny Days has been working with the Parish Council and received funding from Mark Kaczmarek, Cornwall councillor, to plant a small copse in Wheal Jewel Park. Once established these will provided children with some much needed shade and shelter for our future visits. We now have a few spaces available in our under 3’s room and would welcome families registering their interest for the 3 year old funded places from September. To find out more please call in or contact Bobby or Rachel on 01209 821868

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ishes – St. Day, Carharrack, Lanner Gwennap, Stithians and Portreath – continue to meet on a regular basis to exchange views and to work together. The group will probably combine with the Area Network. One Stop Shop (Cornwall Council) Your local “One Stop Shop” is opposite the railway station in Redruth where it should possible to deal with most of your problems and busi-ness relating to Cornwall Council. Police, The phone number for our local team for non-urgent messages is 01209 202324 but this number is not staffed continuously. For real emergencies dial 999 but for other matters 0845 77744 Buses If there are problems with the buses please complete a com-plaint form in the post office and Cllr Ross will then take it up with First Bus. Waste Transfer Station. Cornwall Council has abandoned the idea of a waste transfer and re-cycling centre at Scorrier. Hallenbeagle Estates are investigating the feasibility of using part of their site for waste trans-fer and re-cycling. The site has planning permission for industrial use. We understand that Cornwall Council is looking into the feasibility of various other sites in the Camborne/Redruth area. Meanwhile SITA intends putting in a planning application for temporary use (4 years) for its site at United Downs. Litter, Rubbish, Re-Cycling and Fly-tipping It is an offence to put out your rubbish earlier than the evening prior to the day of collection and you could be charged with depositing litter. The rubbish often gets blown around or the bags are ripped open by dogs, so causing litter and an unsightly mess Cornwall Council collects recyclable materials via the Blue Box Scheme fortnightly on Fridays. For details ring 0300 1234 141.There are Bottle Banks at the Enterprise Centre at Vogue and containers for paper at the School. If you see materials which have been fly tipped, please report it to 0300 1234 141. You do not need to give your name and it is normally re-moved by the next day. There are various items, such as televisions and furniture, which will not be collected by the refuse lorries. If you put out items which are not col-lected, it is your responsibility to make other arrangements for their dis-

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posal. Market Square and West End are places where such items are often left beside the road for several weeks, making the area untidy. Local History Those who are interested may like to look at www.zimapanners.com which covers the history of Zimapan House and its occupants. Zimapan is the house on the right at Tregullow as you drive towards Scorrier. It was originally a Count House associated with the mining interests of the Williams family of Scorrier House, whose history is also covered by the web-site. The house is actually just over the border in Gwennap parish. Mobile Library visits St.Day every fortnight. For details ring 219111

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St Day Parish Council Whenever a large housing development takes place, the developer has to provide the funds to extend the recreational facilities within the area and this has been the case in St Day recently with the affordable housing devel-opment on Telegraph Hill. Ocean Housing, the developers, had to pay a sum of just over £14,000 to the former Kerrier District Council and this was passed on to the new Cornwall Council in April 2009. Parish Councillors have been considering for some time how best to spend these funds and have consulted the public through this Newsletter and at St Day Feast last year. We did receive several suggestions but most of them could not be followed up as there are quite strict regulations which dictate how this money can be spent. It cannot, for example, be given to an individ-ual club to improve its facilities. After a great deal of consideration Councillors decided that, as the play area at Wheal Jewell and the skatepark at Vogue have been provided in recent years for the younger generation, something should now be done for those who are too old to use the swings or ride a skateboard! The idea was put forward and accepted that the funds should be used to provide 10 pieces of outdoor fitness equipment and that these should be sited on the Wheal Jewell playing field – this being the play area closest to the village centre and thus providing the easiest access. There was also the thought that adults supervising their younger children at the play area might feel inclined to do a few chin ups whilst on duty! We have consulted all of the residents who live nearby and have not re-ceived any complaints so we have passed the plans to Cornwall Council and hope that the equipment will be installed by summer. Now it’s up to you to use it!

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Does anyone remember

Frances, Agnes or Rachel Lesser? I have received recently an email from a Vincent Rees who is trying to trace his family. He has found out that Frances Lesser lived with her two daughters, Agnes and Rachel, in Vicarage Hill and also at Vogue in the late 1930s and into the 1940s.

If anyone can remember them and has any further information on them, please contact me on 821829 or at tolcarne@stdaypc.freeserve.co.uk

Many thanks.

Steve Edwards.

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Parking on Telegraph Hill

A meeting was held on Tuesday 2nd February to discuss the perceived problem of parking on Telegraph Hill. In spite of the fact that many people had complained to the Parish Council about the matter, very few general public were present, other than those living on Telegraph Hill, and no one was prepared to put the case against parking on the road outside the houses. This was left to Cllr Kaczmarek and Parish Councillors.

Many of the residents of the new development were present and argued the case for parking on the road very effectively. The developers, Ocean Hous-ing, have now agreed to go back and look at the present allocation of park-ing spaces on the site and the possibility of trying to prevent parking around the junction into Fairfield and also at the very bottom, nearest the junction with the B3298, will be looked into. Other than that, parking will be allowed on the road.

It’s a simple case that, if you feel strongly about something, you have to be prepared to speak up! Steve Edwards, Parish Clerk

I am writing in response to the articule in the St.Day Newsletter about the parking situation on telegraph hill in front of the new houses. I feel that it is unfair to keep going on about the parking there when there are far worse roads in the village with parking problems, for inatance Vogue Hill where the cars park on both sides of the road and cause obstructions to car drivers and the bus, also Scorrier street where to my knowlegde a majority of one side of the street have parking to the rear of their houses which they do not use this obstruction has stopped the bus service using that road and also causes quite a problem to lorries and vans making deliveries in St.Day as twice in the passed week i have seen a lorry stuck in the street be-cause of the parking problem. Ocean housing did not provide enough parking for the residents of fair-field as most families have two cars, Ocean have allocated one car park space per house, there is a number of visitor spaces but there is not enough. It is a long way to walk to some houses on the front if you have young children with you especially if you have bags to carry as well and it is unsafe to leave them walk down the road without holding hands which isnt always possible. I think that people should be a little more tolerant as others are not try-ing to cause a problem and it is unfortunate that they see this issue as one. Mrs K Cooper

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