Archway erected in Helston to celebrate the start of construction of the railway to Helston, 22 March, 1882. The archway is in Church Street with the words "May Trade Increase" and "Progression". A group of people are standing underneath the archway and a man is standing in the doorway of Martyn's shop. The railway opened nearly 5 years later in May 1887

PETROC TRELAWNY

BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny grew up on the Lizard peninsula and attended Helston School in the 1980s.

Introduction to The Way We Live

Director, scriptwriter and feminist Jill Craigie was one of Britain’s earliest women documentary filmmakers. Her 1946 film The Way We Live documents post-war Plymouth and the responses of local people to the pioneering designs drawn up by town planner Sir Patrick Abercombie for the rebuilding the bombed-out city. Craigie cleverly deploys a local cast in…