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Inviting you to join me at Treverbyn Hall for the launch of #AvenKernow a young social media enterprise that wants to work with 16-24 year olds , not in education or training to work on exciting stories and projects in the China Clay Country

#Aven Kernow #young media #digital storytelling #China Clay Country #Treverbyn Hall #Cornwall #China Clay Cornwall #post industrial economy

Have something to say? Join the media workshop in St.Dennis oh the 29th of May 2018 at ClayTawc. No experience required, just yourself.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-voice-your-media-your-community-tickets-45756780763?aff=es2

#young #community media #media #stdennis #cornwall #China Clay Country

For AVEN_Kernow I will go back to St.Dennis to see if I can find Josh again whom I interviewed in 2013 as part of ‘Inherit the Wind’

Here Josh on the street where he lives , in the council estate in St.Dennis China Clay Country, Cornwall St. Dennis is a quiet place, there are only a few things you can do…we have a skate park and Flatty and pointy…you’ve got mud jumps up top and all…the skate park’s been build now and everyone goes there.We’ve got 3 shops, 5pubs…back in the days we had the cinema down here. We’ve got 2 chippies and the post office.I’m 16, I went to Brannel school and my dream job would be probably road working, building, construction, that kind of thing. I worked with my dad a couple of times and since then I liked it, to help him out and all, putting down the yellow lines, it’s fun.I had my first tattoo back in December, the second one a week later, and the other one a couple of months ago…I always wanted one, ever since I was young so I just went and got one. What I thought I’d do is that each star represents a bit of my family, that’s my mom, my dad, my granddad, my gran that died, there’s my sister and I got two space there left, I don’t know for what yet, and there’s my bike helmet and a tribal one. I paid for all of them.

#China Clay Country #English China Clay #Cornish mining #Cornwall #Post Industrial Britain #Post Industrial Stories #documentary project #slow documentary #portrait #community media

Composition of mixed images from archive of China Clay History Society and personal archive of “Inherit the Wind”

#China Clay Country #documentary project #cornwall #history #Post Industrial Britain #politics #colour photography #artists on tumblr

With the project “Inherit the Wind” I was seeking visible traces of the relationship of the people with the land. Those were manifest in the natural landscapes that were altered by the works of the extraction industry.

In St. Dennis, the clay village with the most vibrant community, I met many young people, children and adolescents that grow up in this new era of transformation with the decline of the clay extraction industry. All of them are attached to the area, the land and the landscape. They interact with it daily, playing and living it.

Whereas for generations they clay industry was the primary source of income for the people living here and an integrating part of their existence. Now they are faced with seeking new solutions for the development of the area. This generation will be the most affected by the uncertainty of the economic future in these communities, which could be lead to disintegration by the necessity of seeking employment elsewhere.

The photographic project intends to be a catalyst for discussion and interaction for the residents of St.Dennis about the future of their village, their youngsters and the community.

#China Clay Country #documentary project #cornwall #portrait #photographers on tumblr #adolescence #youth #Post Industrial Britain

These images are a continued study of the China Clay Country in Cornwall , UK.

Looking at the decline of the industrial era of Clay extraction and observing the synergy between residents and the surrounding landscape in relation to this time of change for the community.

#China Clay Country #Post Industrial Britain #young people #new generation #architecture #st.dennis #documentary project

After the All Saints day in Roche cemetery.

2012

#China Clay Country #Post Industrial Britain #long form documentary

Fireworks display at last year’s bonfire night in St.Dennis.

China Clay Country Cornwall.

#China Clay Country #long form documentary #Inherit the wind

Jo Moore, curator of Wheal Martyn Museum photographed in front the largest

working water wheel in Cornwall.

“I moved to Cornwall about 6 years ago, from Somerset, I moved here for a job, I

worked with the National Trust for a long time, and then left there and was doing

some freelance curatorial work part of which involved doing a collections audit for

the Wheal Martin Museum. While I was doing that I saw the job advertised as a parttime

curator here, I didn’t get the job first time around but the lady who got the job

left after 2 months and it was offered to me. That was January last year, 2012.

I found Wheal Martin to be quite a hidden treasure really with masses of potential.

There hadn’t been a curator here I understand for about 5 years prior to this post

being started. So, there is quite a large amount of backlog to be undertaken, luckily

we have some volunteers who’ve been doing work on the collections.

I feel that I haven’t really begun to scratch the surface yet…but it has a very strong

sense of the past and I look forward to finding out more about. I think it’s the most

extraordinarily evocative area and it has a real stark beauty about it but real warmth

of community, which again, part of my project is to reach out to the community.

At Wheal Martin we have quite a large and mixed collection a lot of it is in store

consists of social history objects, items that belong to people involved with clay

industry, clothing, tools and machinery and the archive.

A colleague of mine, who knows the museum from a few years ago, described it as a

sleeping giant, and that is a really lovely way of explaining it, there is a lot of potential

here.”

http://www.wheal-martyn.com/

#China Clay Country #http://www.wheal-martyn.com/#documentary project #Post Industrial Britain #past present and future

above: tree moving at Wheal Martyn Museum 1975

(courtesy of China Clay History society archive)

below: one of the last working clay pits at Wheal Martyn Museum 2013

http://www.wheal-martyn.com/

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Winning football team in China Clay Country.

Photo courtesy of the China Clay History Society:

http://www.chinaclayhistory.org.uk/

#China Clay Country #English China Clay #st.dennis #Post Industrial Britain #long form documentary

Playing football in the China Clay Country.

Photo courtesy of the China Clay History Society

http://www.chinaclayhistory.org.uk/

#China Clay Country #English China Clay #Roche #football

At the staff Ball in Roche.

Photo courtesy of the China clay History Society:

http://www.chinaclayhistory.org.uk/

#China Clay Country #English China Clay #long form documentary #Post Industrial Britain #Cornwall

People at Carnivals in the China Clay Country.

Photos courtesy of the China Clay History Society:

http://www.chinaclayhistory.org.uk/

#China Clay Country #long form documentary #Post Industrial Britain #Cornwall #archive photographs

photo from Sharon Hawkey's archive

#China Clay Country #Cornish Poetry #Cornish mining #Cornwall

Sharon Hawkey, here by the artificial lake in Whitemoor. Sharon runs a pre-school in Whitemoor.

" I met Phil when I was 16. We've been married for nearly 23 years. I got married young, , we bought the house in Whitemoor when I was 18 and this was run down completely so we worked on it every spare minute. Phil used to pick me up after we both finished work and come up every evening and work on the house to get it done.. so we did a lot of hard work together which was good.

Growing up in Treviscoe, that was fun, is a nice place to be in….lots of elderly people, when I grew up in the village, that you could just go in and visit- anybody, anytime. An old butcher man, he used to come driving his butcher van through the street, and he used to stop and we used to jump on as children and go for a ride right through, and he used to take us off and then bring us back again…they were all really lovely characters."

#China Clay Country #Long form documentary #Cornwall #Cornish mining #Post Industrial Britain

Becky James, Imerys PR. Imerys is the greatest extraction company in the China

Clay area, in Cornwall.

“I've answered the first three, but the last two I will need approval from Imerys

before submitting to you. Unfortunately, we have a number of very important events

and visits that are taking priority at the moment and I don't think I will be able to get

them to you by the end of the week even.

If you are happy to just use the first three, I will attach below.”

When did you started working for Imerys?- “I started working for Imerys in 1986”

Where do you live in the China Clay area? – “I live near the village of Trewoon.”

Do you have a particular moment that you remember in connection to the

landscape in the China Clay area? Do you feel connected to this place, or would you

go anywhere else to live? – “There is no particular moment that I remember,

however as I have lived in the area for all of my life the china clay landscape has

always been around me and I can appreciate it's beauty. Much as I love and feel very

fortunate to live in Cornwall, I would also be happy to go and live elsewhere if

necessary.”

How do you see the future of the Clay area from an industrial and economical point

of view?- awaiting answer

Is there anything you'd wish for in regards to the China Clay area's present and

future? – awaiting answer

#China Clay Country #Long form documentary #imerys #Post Industrial Britain

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