The Armchair Archive

Everyday Things: An Everyday Thing, Every Day

Online engagement for the Museum of Cornish Life - a summer-long delve into the archive during the first lockdown of 2020 - sharing items related to the home and to ordinary daily activities taken for granted but out of reach.

  • Curio Collection

    A selection of curios, including shells that fell at Illogan with the rain in 1886.

    Donated by Mr W J Wright

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  • Rouge Box

    Small wooden rouge box still with traces of scented rouge inside.

    Acquired through Helston Old Cornwall Society Museum Fund in 1954.

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  • Pocket Watch Calendar

    A paper calendar made by C A Johns, the naturalist and also Assistant Master at Helston Grammar School 1831-43.

    The calendar was designed to fit into the back of a watch.

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  • Helston Railway Station

    3mm scale model of Helston Railway Station. The branch line station closed to passengers as part of the Beeching cuts in 1962.

    Created by Keith Gowen in 2010

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