Dots on a map

A map for visitors to St Mary's Church, Penzance....
People pinpoint where they've travelled from.  It's interesting to see the clusters - so many from Europe!
It's an idea we might develop in I PACKED THIS MYSELF - breaking down prejudice against people from overseas who come to work here (there's too much prejudice, we hear about it daily.)
Watch this space.
Many thanks to Keno Toriello of St Mary's for forwarding the image to me.

Heart of Conflict resources at Paul Church

Delighted to hear from project organiser Sarah Stevens that Paul Church, near Mousehole in Cornwall, will be able to make use of our Heart of Conflict resources in its fantastic work to restore a World War One memorial window in memory of a local resident, Torquil Bolitho.

More about the project here.

We've kept in touch over the four years that Heart of Conflict has been developing. A group from the church came to visit us at the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro. 

And at the very start of Heart of Conflict in 2014 I visited Paul Church and heard from Rev Andrew Yates about the planned work on the window. More about that here.  At that stage, it was hard to imagine how the money was going to be raised - but it has been thanks to Andrew and his team's commitment.

A library can be more than just a library

An early morning visit to the Cornish Studies Library. A meeting was planned there but snow has fallen in the night and higher roads in the Camborne/Redruth area are treacherous so we postpone until tomorrow.

 I have a chance to look at the  glass cases in the exhibition space with Kim Cooper: Heart of Conflict is due to open on Tuesday 17 February.
This library is more than just a library: while I'm there an elderly man calls by just to say that he'd seen a piece in Interiors magazine this month featuring a Cornish house. He thought they would like to know.
Regulars are deeply engrossed in study.
A unexpected bonus: Cornwall Libraries are divesting their stocks of Cornish church guides and I find one on Paul Church published by the Newlyn Press in 1910.

Visited Paul Church late last year to talk to the vicar, Andrew Yates, about his work there and the remarkable memorial window to one of the Bolitho family. Andrew helped to get Bridging Arts projects with migrant workers and local people off the ground in west Cornwall.

Heart of Conflict: an old friend and fine stained glass at Paul Church

At Paul Church, near Mousehole, talking to the vicar, Rev Andrew Yates, about the extraordinary window in the church.  Andrew helped us to develop I Packed This Myself  (working with migrant workers, schools and other groups in Cornwall) - more here and the blog here. He is now vicar at Paul and still keenly interested in social justice issues.

This window is considered by experts to be one of the finest in the south west.
Groups will visit and learn more as part of Heart of Conflict.