The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Bere Alston Carnival
A May Day procession through the village
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Overview
The May Day Procession in Bere Alston travels to the local market town of Tavistock. Villagers dress up in the year of King George V’s Silver Jubilee which was celebrated on 6 May. The Fair dates from the time of the opening of the silver-lead mines. Reginald de Ferrers obtains a market and a fair in 1295 and shortly afterwards the village becomes a borough. The fair continues to this day.
The village is one of the largest in Devon and lies in the Bere peninsula between the rivers Tamar and Tavy. Its origins lie not only in the once thriving mining industry where tin, silver-lead and arsenic were extracted but also in market gardening where mainline trains to London would stop at the village to pick up locally grown produce of cherries, strawberries and daffodils destined for the capital.
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