Author: Tom Goskar
On Thursday 14 April 2016 Ted Gundry passed away, aged 82. Ted was a veteran radio broadcaster, and one of the founding members of BBC Radio Cornwall. In…
Azook Community Interest Company is pleased to announce a partnership with the Hypatia Trust. The project will create a reading room for the Elizabeth Treffry Collection, an important…
The public response to our cornishmemory.com, our online collection of historic Cornish photographs, films and recordings, has been wonderful. Shortly after we re-launched the website with 31,500 items in…
As of October 2015 Azook Community Interest Company have moved to new offices at Krowji, Redruth. Our new address is: Azook CIC Krowji, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, UK…
The team at Azook have been a whirlwind of activity this year. Re:collect, our Cornwall-wide digitisation project will finish at the end of October, and MemoryFish, our fishing…
One of the most famous names in Cornish fishing is W. Stevenson and Sons of Newlyn. The Stevensons have been fishing out of Newlyn for over 100 years….
Our cornishmemory.com project contains thousands of wonderful historic photographs showcasing Cornwall’s heritage. Due to popular demand we have created the “cornishmemory.com Print Shop” with a selection of the…
This morning, whilst sorting through the digitised photographs from the collection belonging to Mac Waters, one photo in particular jumped out at us. It was a postcard printed around 1900…
Our MemoryFish project is now well underway, and we have digitised over 900 photos relating to Cornwall’s fishing industry. The photos have come from a mixture of private…
The MemoryFish project has so far been office-based as we make contact with collection holders, plan events, and ready our workflows. That was until last week, when Claire,…