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The
Jubilee Heritage Group holds quite a lot of items about the history of the area, our
mining heritage, buildings, environment and people. We have
photographs, maps, documents and artefacts. We aim to preserve it as a resource for
current and future generations, available to any person or
organisation whenever possible. If you have things you think might add to our
collection we’d
love to borrow them, just to copy, note down or photograph, and
we’ll return everything to you very quickly. Or if you wish to
donate anything we’ll ensure it is safely stored.
Whilst it had been our aim to get the collection digitised
and available on the internet we have not had the volunteers
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Daily uploading of photographs
during Covid lockdowns
At at time when all local events
and activities were being cancelled, the Jubilee Group
decided to upload photographs from our Heritage Collection
on the Brentor, Lydford and Mary Tavy Hub facebook group.
Every day there were pictures, sometimes just a couple,
sometimes more than twenty, taken from the collection we
hold of photographs by Jim Thorington, taken for the
Tavistock Times. These have proved extremely
interesting and enjoyable for the community during difficult
times.
Heritage Days
16 & 17 April
2016
The weekend
was a great success, with about 150 people engrossed in the
collection of photographs and items, and many people brought
in new images and artefacts, either given or loaned to us.
The Gerry
Sargent Collection
Former resident of Mary Tavy,
Gerry Sargent, was well known as a local historian and he
had accumulated a wealth of information about the social
history and mining. After he'd moved away from the
village he very kindly donated his amazing collection
of photographs, stories and maps to Michael Fife Cook, and
it is available alongside the collection in the pocession of
the Jubilee Group.
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