Carnkie is a village in west Cornwall, it is situated approximately one and a half miles southwest of Redruth, in the civil parish of Lanner.
1838: “Carnkie Band [possibly Wendron] played at Portreath on the occasion of the Illogan Cottage Garden Exhibition.”(RCG 30th June 1838)
1859: Mr Basset of Tehidy and his Tenantry. Carnkie Brass Band played. (25 November 1859 – Royal Cornwall Gazette)
1886: “On Saturday last the annual tea treat of the Carnkie Wesleyan Sunday School was held in the school-yard. The children afterwards adjourned to a field adjoining the chapel, lent by Mrs Jeffery. St Agnes Independent Brass Band was engaged for the occasion. During the evening the Carnkie Fife and Drum Band came on the scene and started tunes in opposition to those played by the St Agnes Band. These proceedings were productive of much amusement. ” (25 June 1886 – Cornubian and Redruth Times)
1886: Penryn Brass Band and the Carnkie Fife and Drum Band at Carnkie Primitive Methodist Sunday School. (23 July 1886 – Cornubian and Redruth Times)
1890s: Carnkie Band of Hope Fife and Drum Band formed under W Warne. (Victorian Redruth)
Compiled by Tony Mansell (Bardh Kernow)
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