The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film archive for the South West of England. Established in 1993, SWFTA's core collection comprises of the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and TSW (Television South West). The archive also cares for a significant number of donated film collections, both amateur and professional, dating back to the early 1900s.
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Carlyon Farm
Clive Gunnell reports from Carlyon Farm
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Overview
TV reporter Clive Gunnell is with pupils from Penweathers School in Truro on Carlyon Farm in Cornwall. This is a bid to educate and inform young people from cities and urban areas about farming and its practices. The aim is to provide an experience of farm and countryside life enabling pupils to make the connection between food production and food consumption.
Carlyon meaning fort of rock-slabs is one of four civil parishes created in 2009 for the St Austell area of Cornwall. Part rural and part coastal it encompasses Carlyon Bay, Garker and Tregrehan Mills. In the area too are the Carlyon Farm Kilns that were once the largest coal fired china clay drying kilns. Penweathers School site is in redevelopment for housing.
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