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SHARE AGM Sept. 23rd 2025 7:30pm


Its been a busy year for SHARE. TAKE A LOOK at what’s be happening.

We need extra help with running the group. We could do so much more then. Otherwise we’ll just tick along and miss many opportunities.

Email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk or speak to David, Mel or Astrid

Take notes at monthly committee meetings. In person or Facetime.

Arrange visits to places of interest to the group.

Update the SHARE web page to be more engaging and less clunky.

Directors to help shape the groups future, ideally individuals with fresh ideas, leadership, organisational & management skills.

Ideas for future projects and Project manager to bring to fruition.

Liaison to improve connections with local communities by attending meetings and events.

Book keeper and a Financial Director. We may well have to pay for these services.

SHARE sponsoring classes at the Horticultural show


South Hill Horticultural Show August 16th 2025 … SHARE are sponsoring some children’s classes, so any 15’s or under take a look and maybe win the prize money. !!

The SHARE classes are:

  • 107. A model made from recycled items (max size 12”)
    • 108. A4 size poster, collage or drawing depicting
      “How can you reduce energy usage at home?”
      109. A Photo of Renewable Energy (Children < 15 years,
      photo no larger than 6 x 9” & mounted on card)

St Breward Jubilee Rock 7 mile loop July 2025


2 walks in 2 days. STARTING outside the church in ST BREWARD, we headed down to St James Holy well, and the RED TREES installation, which just opened on May 18th 2025 www.thewildcircle.co.uk/redash .

Through the farm at Coombe Mill, with deer, pigmy goats, chickens, pigs. We split our paths here. ONE group headed up then down into DE LANK quarry and up through a jungle of overgrown head height bracken, the other also went down past the quarry turbine house and up coming out at Pendrift… both arrived at Jubilee rock.

Granite from the De Lank Quarry was used for The Eddystone LightHouse 1882, the Beachy Head Lighthouse 1900 and Tower Bridge 1890. Dring this time the quarry was very prosperous and employed nearly 100 local men and women. During the WW1 the majority of the work came from making grave stones and street curbs. After WW2 cheap concrete was used for building purposes and work again slackened, despite this De Lank granite was used to construct the Karl Marx memorial 1956, the Magna Carta memorial at Runneymede 1957, a granite statue of Lord Baden-Powell 1958 and Granite from the quarry was used to build the Tamar Road Bridge. In the 60’s the quarry work flourished again and by the 1980’s up to 2500 tonnes of finished stone per year was being produced and shipped world-wide. The Hydro turbines went live in 2011, originally drills and saws were powered by compressed air now 680 litres per second generates electricity, between 300 – 400 megawatt hours per year using the original pipeline.

Jubilee Rock a 10′ by 25′ granite, is listed as a Grade II monument. In 1810. Lieutenant John Rogers to celebrate King George III’s Golden Jubilee carved this giant rock. He also engraved the coats of arms of Falmouth, Morshead, and Molesworth. Since then, the rock has been spruced up a couple of times and added, Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and Queen Elizabeth II’s in 2012. Read some interesting facts here > https://cornishbirdblog.com/jubilee-rock-bodmin-moor/

From here the routes took us to Delphi bridge and back to the church and pub next door. Thank you Bill for letting us make some noise on the bells and going up the tower.