CHP committee, 2017-03-16
Minutes

Minutes of a Caradon Heritage Partnership committee meeting held at Liskeard on 2017-03-16. Readership is CHP members.

Present:

Peter Jackson           Secretary
Iain Rowe               Caradon Archaeology
Brian Oldham            Walkers are welcome
Dave Warne              Caradon Mines
David Jean              Caradon Mines
Jill Saunders           Oak Tree walking
Lorna Shrubsole         Liskeard Town Council
Rachel Bennet           Stuart House
Mike Todd               Linkinhorne History and Community Archive

Apologies:

Steve Hopkin   Derris Watson  Hilary Taylor  Brigitte Mann
Alan Groves    Jen Bousfield

The meeting was chaired by BO.

Previous minutes

Accepted as accurate (RB, IR).

Finance updates

DW was not present so we don't know the exact state of the bank account. BO reported no further book sales yet.

Equipment update

IR reported that he's received a reply from the Trevithick Society confirming the location of the equipment they hold.

Web update

We intend no further action regarding the CARADONHILL.ORG.UK web site until we need to make major changes to it.

MT asked about the status of the CORNISHGRAVES.ORG.UK web site.

The domain itself is registered to DW via HEARTINTERNET, expiring in June 2018.

The site itself is managed by someone called Martin Russell of Webcube media and hosted as part of their assets. The site is based on a Wordpress platform. There do not appear to be any immediate risks with this site, which is in active use.

Caradon Heritage update

IR noted that Cornwall Heritage Trust has been active of late and now owns the field in which Trethevy Quoit is sited. They may be willing to be involved in supporting the potential assets of CH.

Phoenix Festival 2017

This runs from 2017-06-26 thru 2017-07-01.

The following commitments emerged from discussion. Dates are not completely fixed and to be confirmed after taking into account availability and scheduling of other events with which we do not wish to conflict.

2017-06-26:
2017-06-27: IR -Phoenix walk.
2017-06-28: Dave Warne will do an evening talk in the Long Room on local mines featuring underground images from SE Cornwall mines. Final title to be decided.
2017-06-29:
2017-06-30: "Battling on" hedge laying course.
Evening:
Local history walk around town organised by the Museum. Private residences of the mining people of Liskeard. Opportunity to look round the museum afterwards.

All evening outdoor events to start at 19:00 and talks to start at 19:30.

IR will begin work on the posters now.

Items previously discussed that we probably won't do this time are noted below. Some of them might be more suited to the "Unlocking Liskeard" Heritage Open Days event being considered for September 2017.

Bat walk: Twilight is too late at this time of year.
Geological walk: CB is not available for this (Scheduling conflict with the CAGG summer field trip).
Museum at night: Requires too many volunteers. A walk around Liskeard is easier for them to organise.

Unlocking Liskeard

This is part of the Heritage Open Days events taking place in September.

Items mentioned in this context included:

Jails. There was a jail house at the back of the Pipe Well. Also at Greenbank Lane and Castle Park.
This may be a good time of year to do a Bat walk.
Making the "town silver" visible.
Masons building?
St Martins church tower.

IR will be attending a meeting about this on 2017-04-02.

Next meeting

Date to be specified by DW to be chaired by IR.

AOB

The Reading The Hurlers main public presentation will be on 2017-05-26 at Carnglaze. This is free but participants should book via READINGTHEHURLERS.CO.UK. Details about this will be circulated to the relevant mailing lists.
2017-06-03 - Family History Day in Liskeard.
IR says that Rebecca Dixon now manages the community part of Cormac. They have a trailer available with equipment and tools for working on roadside vegetation. People can register with them as volunteers which would cover them under Cormac's public liability insurance for roadside working.

Meeting closed at 20:42 UTC.

Updates

This document is maintained by the Caradon Heritage Partnership. Comments should be addressed to CHP_secretary at caradon dot org dot uk.

PNJ, 2017-03-16. Transcribed from notes made at the meeting.