Beacon Lighting

Beacon lighting celebrating Cornwall Heritage Trust’s 40th anniversary & VE Day's 80th anniversary

A beacon lighting to celebrate Cornwall Heritage Trust’s 40th anniversary and the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

The charity will be hosting a special exhibition from 3pm – 5pm at Balwest Sunday School as part of the celebrations. This exhibition will explore the lives of those brave men of Germoe who are commemorated on the tall granite cross at the summit of Tregonning Hill as well as the experiences of those on the Home Front in the local area. It will also celebrate the lives of the four members of the crew who died on board the Bristol Beaufort bomber that crashed in the larger quarry adjacent to the hillfort in 1941.

There will also be an artist-led craft activity for visitors to take part in.

Refreshments, including celebration cupcakes, will be served from 3pm for a suggested donation of £2.

The exhibition will be followed by the lighting of our specially commissioned mini-brazier at the summit of Tregonning Hill at 6pm.

You don’t need to be members and there’s no need to book. Just come along and enjoy!

Founded in 1985, Cornwall Heritage Trust is a small, completely independent charity which protects some of Cornwall’s most important historic sites, runs a wide-reaching heritage education and engagement programme and provides grants which enable schoolchildren and community groups to visit museums and historic places. This event is in aid of Cornwall Heritage Trust.

Located near Helston, Tregonning Hill is a complex archaeological landscape with monuments and other features dating back to the Iron Age, Romano-Cornish and medieval periods. It is also known as the birthplace of the British china clay industry. The site was purchased by Cornwall Heritage Trust in November 2023.