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Image by Bernie Pattersen - supplied by Visit Cornwall
Camborne is an important market and industrial town in west Cornwall. Together with the neighbouring settlements of Redruth and Pool it forms the largest urban conurbation in Cornwall. Mining history dominates both the fabric of the place and the culture of the people.
Camborne Churchtown was a small hamlet surrounded by moorland. It was only one small place among a cluster of other villages, most of which were larger. The original road to Camborne was through Tuckingmill from where travellers had to follow a route through Treswithian to reach the hamlet.
It was the early eighteenth century development of the local copper mines and the subsequent eighteenth and nineteenth-century industrialisation of tin and copper mining that transformed the surrounding area into Cornwall’s principal industrial centre and set the town on a new development trajectory.
During the nineteenth century Camborne became Cornwall’s most industrialised town, expanding rapidly to house both the ever expanding workforce and the associated industrial processes, such as the internationally important Holman drill works. With this expansion the town was quickly urbanised, becoming a rival to the earlier established town of Redruth.
The numerous impressive late nineteenth century civic, religious and commercial buildings are testimony to the success of this period. However, with the decline in Cornish mining the economic success of the town weakened. The CompAir Holman works has recently closed, although another engineering firm is reusing part of the site.
Trevithick Day
Come along and join us for a day out in Camborne
Steam engines and steam parade . Sound stages with local bands and choirs . Street entertainers . Stalls . Street food . Funfair . Exhibitions . Schools competition . Vintage vehicles . Stationary engines . Morning and afternoon dances led by Camborne Town Band . Park & Ride on vintage buses .
Ride on the vintage buses
Ride here in style!
Cornwall Bus Preservation Society are providing some of their fantastic vintage buses from Cornwall College, Pool main entrance, Tolvaddon Road TR14 0EQ (just off the A30 Camborne/Pool junction)
Open from 8:30am to 5:30pm £5 per car and £10 per mini bus - please bring cash just in case our card reader isn't happy
Buses run approximately every 20 minutes and stop on Wesley Street (near Tesco), at the top of Trelowarren Street.
Come and see the engines
Steam up!
Steam engines from all over the country line up in Basset Road and then parade through the town at approximately 3.30pm.
It’s a magnificent sight, not to be missed.
We have fair organs and miniatures on display.
Don't forget the stationary engines behind the library too.
Celebrate Pride in Cornwall
Free to attend - Live entertainment - Family friendly - Foof and drink vendors - Quiet space provided
Falmouth Pride - April 27
Falmouth Event Square 10am - 7pm
Camborne Pride - May 11
John Holman Fountain 11am - 4pm
Redruth Pride - May 12
11am - 4pm
St Austell Pride - May 18
White River Place 10am - 5pm
Penzance Pride - June 01
Penzance Promenade 11am - 6pm
Bodmin Pride - June 15
Priory Park 11am - 5pm
Newquay Pride - July 20
Killacourt 10am - 7pm
Bude Pride - July 27
The Castle Green 11am - 6pm
Cornwall Pride (Truro) - August 31
Lemon Quay 10am - 7pm
Saltash Pride - September 14
Jubilee Green 11am - 5pm
St Ives Pride - October 05
Island Centre 11am - 4pm