Cornwall College students help capture Heartlands in pictures

Every stage of Heartlands' development is being documented on camera by students from Cornwall College, Camborne.

The photography students will be making regular visits to the site to document each stage in the £35million project. Before work officially gets underway, the students have been busy capturing the site, documenting and archiving the historic buildings before the site is cleared and prepared in preparation for building work in the summer this year.

The pictures will be an inspirational resource not only for artists and designers working at Heartlands, but also for the community, including educational and community organisations. Heartlands social archive has been created to raise awareness about Cornwall's cultural heritage, as well as recognising and celebrating its achievements and aims to offer insight through learning from the material culture of this historic World Heritage Gateway.

The Cornwall College students that are photographing the site are studying for the Foundation degree in Animation and Foundation degree in Multimedia Design. Stephen Howard, Head of Multi Media and Animation at Cornwall College said "We are delighted to be able to work with Heartlands, the students are enjoying being involved in an exciting live project right on their door step and gaining valuable work experience too".

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Heartlands have been working with Pool Business and Enterprise College and artist Ben Cook on the Lost Words Found Objects project. Click here to keep up to date with all the Lost Words Found Objects news.

New artist impressions of Heartlands

Aerial impression of the Heartlands site. The sketch also shows future developments in Pool that will surround Heartlands, (shown by the faded areas).

The centre of Pool is also included in the Heartlands developments.


The market square will be sheltered by the existing mine buildings and new builds - community building, artists studios, offices and apartments.

Robinson's Shaft is at the hub of Heartlands. The derelict tin mine will be transformed in to an interpretation centre to celebrate Heartlands World Heritage Site gateway status.

Local residents walking from Pool centre will first reach the Chy an Bobel (community building) which frames Robinson's Shaft in the distance.

Local student councils unite at Heartlands

Student council groups from Pool, Camborne and Redruth secondary schools have joined forces to keep an eye on the progress of Heartlands.

The students were introduced to the project by having a guided tour of the site. Pool Business and Enterprise College, Redruth Technology College and Camborne Science and Community College are located within a short distance of the Heartlands project, therefore are keen to get to grips with the project and relay information on the scheme to their fellow students. In the future we hope that the student council can guide us on how they might use Heartlands when it is open.

Heartlands in the snow!

Taken Wednesday 6th January 2010

Lost Words Found Objects take to the Great Flat Lode

For the second part of the Lost Words Found Objects project, year 7 students led by artist Ben Cook, walked the Great Flat Lode trail. The young people navigated themselves using O.S maps and compasses from Wheal Basset to King Edward Mine. Along the way the students from Pool Business and Enterprise College recorded what they saw and found using sketchbooks and digital media, keping their eyes open for as many 'Lost Words' as they could find.

As the project progresses they will be encouraged to find ways in which they can manifest their 'Lost Words' in a physical form of their choosing. The words will be collated in to a book and used to inform and inspire artists working on the Heartlands project.

Architects impressions of the new builds at Heartlands

Above shows the view when walking from Pool Village into Heartlands, with Robinsons Shaft visible through the new community building.

A small playground will be located to the back of the community building, a Children's Centre occupies half of this building. In addition to this small play area there will be a large playground located in the park at Heartlands.

Aerial impression of the former tin mine buildings at Robinsons Shaft and also the complex of new builds which will include a community building, artist studios, apartments, market square, events space in the form of a plain an gwarry.

Above shows the plain an gwarry which will be at Heartlands, which is surrounded by artist studios with residential space above and a market square.