Inspiring the future - Pupils join forces at story telling event

More than 220 pupils from schools across the Camborne, Pool and Redruth area have come together to recall memories and tell their stories of the area.

The pupils from seven schools have spent the last 10 weeks gathering stories and speaking to older generations in their family to learn about their memories.

The story telling event, which was held at Carn Brea Leisure Centre on 24 March, gave the pupils involved with the project the opportunity to exhibit their stories to members of the public and other family relatives.

Members of the Heartlands Project were on hand to talk about the development of the Project and professional storyteller, Mark Harandon, entertained the pupils with exciting tales in between tours around the storyboards. To mark the end of the event all the children involved with the story telling project were presented with a Heartlands bookmark and certificate. Four pupils from each school, will be awarded a book token for the best stories and their stories will feature in a booklet which will be produced to tell the story of Heartlands, its past, present and future.

The stories that have been gathered will help form part of the Heartlands social history archive
which will be accessible to all of the commissioned artists working on the project. The stories will
enable the artists to gain inspiration and allow them to base their ideas on real accounts and
experiences of the area.


Cllr Carolyn Rule, Kerrier District Council’s portfolio holder for economy and regeneration, said: “The story telling event was a wonderful opportunity for the young and old to come together and recall fascinating memories and experiences of growing up in the area.

“Paul Annear, from Pool Business & Enterprise College worked with Kirsty Davies, Heartlands Community Project Manager, to collect the stories with the pupils.

Kirsty said: “The story telling event was a fantastic opportunity to get all the children that were involved with the workshops together and share the fascinating memories that had been collected. I’m delighted that the feedback from everyone involved was really positive and I know that the pupils are really excited about the Heartlands Project becoming a reality in the knowledge they have helped inspire elements of it. “

A big thank from Heartlands and Pool Business and Enterprise College goes to all 7 primary schools for your enthusiasm and wonderful stories which will contribute to the Heartlands Social History Archive. The archive will be stored at Heartlands and features stories from local residents, young people and miners about life in Pool. The archive will be used to inspire artists and designers working at Heartlands.