This coming season Redruth will play Camborne in two league games, the first time these two old rivals have played together at the same level since 1991. However the sometimes turbulent, history of games between the two sides stretches back to the Boxing Day fixture in December 1877, although, it has to be said that that fixture did not become the continuous one many think it is.

To mark the occasion I am collaborating with the man dubbed ’The Cornish Historian’, Francis Edwards to write a piece looking back at some of the events and stories surrounding this rivalry. It’s planned to publish this before the first game, the date of which we won’t know until the fixture list is finalised.

I’m asking players and supporters who have either taken the field for matches against Camborne in the past or watched from the side-lines, to let me have any memories of these games. What it meant to play Camborne and why games with that club still attract the crowds they do. The more of these memories we can include the better.

As well as this piece, I would like to use some of these tales in the book I am currently writing to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Redruth RFC. First hand memories add so much interest and colour to the tale and, I can tell you, there is plenty of colour surrounding matches with Camborne over the last 140 years or so

Please send me your tales and memories to nick@serpell.org or I can be contacted on 07811 433134

Many thanks

Nick Serpell
nick@serpell.org
07811 433134