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St Ives Museum Visit

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 ​ As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?  -Anon.  Looking through the War Memorial Register as a volunteer for the Imperial War Museums, I noticed a glazed and framed Roll of Honour on the system housed at St Ives Museum. I have been to St Ives before and walked past the museum a good few times, but never went in.  Since I started volunteering for the Imperial War Museum's War Memorial Register, I knew that every place I visit, no matter how near or far, or if I am familiar with the said place or not, it is a great excuse to get onto the database and look at war memorials in that place, then go out and find them. (Also gives me a reason to get out of the house when I have nothing to do)! St Ives Museum   is a large collection of everything Cornish; from farming to fishing, to mining and Brunel's Gr...