If you any of your family attended the primary schools of St Keverne, Coverack, Porthallow or Traboe, the St Keverne Local History Society wants to hear from you.

As the society members prepare for their annual exhibition, which this year will be on the theme 'Education in the Parish,' they are asking residents to hunt out old photographs, school prizes, certificates, exercise books, reports, cups, craft items, letters and other school related memorabilia.

Precious photographs and documents can be scanned and returned on the day, or owners can scan their own and documents beforehand and send them to the secretary, Karen Richards.

Karen said: "The exhibition will span almost three centuries from the late seventeenth to the present day, and will seek to tell the story of the development of elementary education in the Parish. Beginning with the will in 1698 of Mr Sampson Sandys of Lanarth, who left the rent and profits of the ‘tenement called Chywoon’ so that a schoolmaster or mistress could teach ‘the poor children of the parish to read and write’ up to the present day with a wonderful display of work by the pupils of St Keverne and Coverack Schools today.

"Come along and help us identify some of those unnamed pupils from long ago and add your memories to the story."

The exhibition will be held in St Keverne Church Hall on Wednesday. August 5, St Keverne Ox Roast day, from 10am to 8pm and Thursday, August 6, from 10am to 5pm.

Refreshments are available, there is no entrance fee, but donations are very welcome.

To send in photos email Karen at karenrichards@fsmail.net.