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Page 1 - BodZine Declaration, artwork AT Page 2 - You’re on it!

Page 3 - Record introduction, MD & EF Page 4 - GE/2/E/62166, George & Jessie Ellis outside George W F Ellis Ltd Page 5 -7 - The Onyx album art, collab. AC, PV, ND, BF Page 8 - Old Nan’s memory of Bodmin Music Depot Page 9 - My Week #1, ND Page 10 - Scenic lunch, EF Page 11 - Bodzine Tattoo Flash #1, MD Page 12 - GE/2/E/35769, 24 August 1957, Anne Goskar with her painting Page 13- 14 - George Ellis’ ledgers Page 15 - Bodzine Ledgers, collab.

Page 16 - My Week #2, PV Page 17-18 - How to guide: searching for Ellis images on the Kresen Kernow website Page 19 - Bodzine Tattoo Flash #2 Page 20 - Happier Home, Sarah Ferreira Page 21-22 - BodZine Desert Island Discs #1, collab.

Page 23 - 24 - Recording from a Nostalgia Workshop, November 2024 Page 25 - My Week #3, MD Page 26 - Group Discussion: ‘How do we record, share and save information?’

Page 27 - 28 - BodZine Top Picks: Cornish Media & Cultural Resources!

Page 29 - Bodzine Desert Island Discs #2, ML. Page 30 - GE/2/E/3571, 22nd November 1940, George Ellis on duty Front and Back Cover Artwork: MD

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Below: The Rumps, Pentire, as captured by George Ellis on the 24th February 1940 (GE/2/CG/624), & Ellie Fullwood on the 29th August 2021

We love We love a a dual dual interpretation. interpretation. And And in in this this zine, zine, we we wanted wanted to to explore explore ‘Record’ ‘Record’ both as both as a a means means of of documenting documenting and and collecting collecting information information in in all all forms, forms, but but also also ‘Record’ as ‘Record’ as a a musical musical medium, medium, a a way way we we connect connect and and share share stories stories through through sound! sound!

As well As well as as a a life life dedicated dedicated to to capturing capturing the the people people and and happenings happenings of of Cornwall, Cornwall, George Ellis George Ellis also also ran ran ‘Bodmin ‘Bodmin Music Music Depot’, Depot’, a a record record shop shop within within his his Commercial Commercial and Press and Press Photography Photography Shop Shop on on No. No. 4 4 St St Nicholas Nicholas Street, Street, and and was was a a keen keen singer, singer, pianist and pianist and painter. painter. It It seems seems Ellis’ Ellis’ life life could could be be summed summed up up with with the the word word ‘Record’ and ‘Record’ and all all of of its its connotations, connotations, and and as as our our final final zine zine of of the the ‘Roots ‘Roots + + Routes’ project Routes’ project we we wanted wanted to to honour honour this. this.

Cornwall is Cornwall is a a place place rich rich in in musical musical talent talent - think think Mick Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood & & Aphex Aphex Twin!

Twin!

We’ve explored We’ve explored this this and and celebrated celebrated some some of of Bodmin’s Bodmin’s own own musical musical legends legends past past and and present, like present, like The The Onyx Onyx & & Martha Martha Woods, Woods, each each influenced influenced by by their their contemporary, contemporary, local musical local musical circuit circuit and and the the places places they’ve they’ve been. been. In In addition addition to to this this we we wanted wanted to document to document our our own own ‘Desert ‘Desert Island Island Discs’, Discs’, gathering gathering our our favourite favourite songs songs into into a a collective playlist collective playlist for for you you to to enjoy! enjoy!

Throughout the Throughout the Roots Roots & & Routes Routes project, project, our our zines zines have have tapped tapped into into the the vast vast historical potential historical potential of of the the Ellis Ellis Archive.

Archive. His His photographs photographs are are invaluable invaluable records records of lived of lived experience experience in in Cornwall Cornwall and and their their digitisation digitisation by

by Kresen Kresen Kernow Kernow has has made made them more them more accessible accessible to to a a new new generation. generation. The The historical historical significance significance of of his his photography is photography is related related to to the the meticulous meticulous ledgers ledgers he he kept, kept, which which organise organise the the collection and collection and provide provide context context to to his his photography. photography. The The dates, dates, locations locations and and names names attached to attached to the the photos photos have have allowed allowed for for uncovering uncovering stories stories that that would would otherwise otherwise have been have been left left unknown unknown or or forgotten. forgotten.

But, such But, such a a large large archive archive can can be be seductive. seductive. The The temptation temptation is is to to see see a a wealth wealth of of material material - encompassing encompassing everything everything you you could could want want to to know know about about Cornwall Cornwall in in the the th 20th 20 century century - and and forget forget about about the the gaps. gaps. Ellis Ellis was was an an extraordinary extraordinary photographic photographic talent but talent but he he was was just just one one man. man. What What did did he he miss? miss? What What can’t can’t photography, photography, or or ledgers, tell ledgers, tell us us about about the the past, past, about about ourselves? ourselves? We We wanted wanted to to consider consider these these gaps gaps and think and think about about our our role role in in making making and and recording recording our our own own history. history.

With usage With usage of of AI-generated AI-generated imagery imagery and and ‘deepfakes’ ‘deepfakes’ increasing increasing at at breakneck breakneck speed, speed, it may it may be be difficult difficult for for generations generations to to come come to to separate separate fact fact from from fake. fake. How How we we codify and codify and organise organise our our own own lived lived experiences experiences might might be be utterly utterly irretrievable irretrievable to to someone in someone in the the future future - how how might might people people in in 100 100 years years from from now now learn learn about about us? us? We We considered this considered this and and decided decided to to document document some some of of our our everyday everyday routines routines - life life so so easily and easily and quickly quickly passes passes us us by, by, so so why why not not capture capture some some of of the the mundane mundane as as well well as as the extraordinary? the extraordinary?

Some records Some records we we keep keep are are for for ourselves, ourselves, not not others, others, souvenirs souvenirs of of a a life life lived lived etched onto etched onto our our bodies bodies permanently, permanently, some some by by choice, choice, like like tattoos tattoos - traditionally traditionally used by used by sailors sailors and and indigenous indigenous people people to to commemorate commemorate milestones milestones or or loved loved ones, ones, but but now adopted now adopted by by society society at at large large - and and some some not not so so much much by by choice, choice, like like scars! scars! Both Both are proof are proof that that life life has has happened happened to to you you and and you’re you’re still still here here to to tell tell the the tale. tale.

This zine This zine is is a a celebration celebration of of the the everyday everyday artists artists and and history-makers, history-makers, keeping keeping Cornish memory Cornish memory and and culture culture alive. alive. We We hope hope you you enjoy! enjoy! X X

Above: GE/2/E/62166 - October 1974 George & Jessie Ellis outside George W F Ellis Ltd, Press & Commercial Photographers, & Bodmin Music Depot No.4 St Nicholas Street, Bodmin Additional Note In Ledger: “When it closed in October 1974”

The Onyx were a psychedelic rock band who formed in Bodmin in the early 60's. The band performed under a few different names (such as The Jaguars & The Onyx Set), with various different members - including the local ‘Alstock’ festival namesake Al Hodge! They made waves in the Cornish music scene and went on to national success, touring the UK in their bus ‘Lady Sandra’, recording several BBC Sessions & releasing many singles with record companies Pye Records, CBS and Parlophone.

Bodzine have listened to their music in our workshops and designed them new album covers based on Ellis images - 58 years after their first single, Kaleidoscope of Colours (1967).

SOURCE: www.the-onyx.co.uk

Old Nan’s memory of Bodmin Music Depot “In 1965 I started working in Bunts, sorting old newspapers on a Saturday. I would get paid at the end of the day and then go up to Mr Ellis’ to buy a record. You could go in the back of the shop and listen to the record with headphones.

It was always busy with teenagers buying their favourites.

The typical cost of one record was 6/8 - that would equal 34p now.”

“My first record was The Rolling Stones, 19th Nervous Breakdown - very proud of that one. Its B side was As Tears go By. I had a record player in my room and used to come home and play them. I must have driven Mum and Dad mad - we didn’t have headphones at home in those days.”

“Other records I remember buying were: Cilla Black, Anyone who had a heart, You are my world; Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman; Righteous Brothers, You’ve lost that loving feelin’ and Unchained melody; The Beatles, She Loves You, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Can’t Buy Me Love; and California Dreaming and House of the Rising Sun.

Old Nan ^ with her family in Michaelstow, c. 1962.

I also bought a lot of Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin I could go on forever. I loved lots of different music but the Rolling Stones were my favourite.”

GE/2/E/35769, GE/2/E/35769, th 24th 24 August 1957, August 1957, Miss Anne Miss Anne Goskar Goskar with with her her painting, painting, St Austell St Austell Arts Arts Society Society Exhibition, Exhibition, Operatic Rooms, Operatic Rooms, St St Austell Austell

George Ellis’ ledgers See the dates down the right hand side Image reference numbers down the left

GE/2/E/64170, 6 September 1978, Police Station being demolished.

View from corner of Pound Lane & Launceston Road, Bodmin (Near present-day Lidls!) th

Bodzine Ledgers

How to search for George Ellis images on the Kresen Kernow website: 1) Go to kresenkernow.org and search for ‘George Ellis photographic collection’.

2) Click on this to open up the whole Collection and select GE/2 to access the image sub-records.

3) GE/2 is divided into different letter series GE/2/E, for instance - reflecting Ellis’ organisation of material in his ledgers. Each image has a separate record and image reference number.

4) When you click on an individual image record, there will be some information about the image - often a location and date. This information is usually derived from Ellis’ ledgers. There will also be ‘tags’ and ‘subjects’. These have been added by Kresen Kernow to help users search for information thematically.

Sometimes there will not be an image available to see.

This might be because it hasn’t been digitised yet there are +90,000 to get through! - or maybe the image is missing. If missing, usually this is noted.

5) To see a wide range of images, you could browse through each letter category. But if you wanted to see images from a specific place, you could search ‘GE’ with ‘Bodmin’ to see images from Bodmin.

6) You could also add filters to your search. Adding a date range, or searching By Subject could be helpful if you were looking for specific types of image.

7) Happy searching! And remember - you need permission to reproduce and publish George Ellis images online!

Adding filters can be a great way to help you find the material you want.

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For more help searching, look for this button on the Kresen Kernow website ->

and for more information on the George Ellis Collection, you can visit Kresen Kernow’s digital exhibition: The George Ellis Archive, Uncovered.

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recording from Nostalgia Q: So, remind me, what’s the, the theme of this ‘Bodzine’?

EF: Uh, so, the theme that we’re working on is ‘Nostalgia’ Q: Okay EF: Um… So yeah, we’ve been… uh… the first session we were, working with lego, printing with lego, and thinking about, kind of like, childhood toys, and wanting to craft in ways that are very intentionally, like, um, I guess ‘child-like’ because when you’re a kid you just make stuff, you don’t think about it [inaudable]. So yeah, we wanted to do some [fun?] crafts. And then, we’ve made, some postcards - because Millie’s, uh, great auntie, uh, used to visit Cornwall all the time, and she’d buy George Ellis postcards. So we had her postcards to have a look at for one of our sessions.

AT: I cannot thread this needle…

EF: Oh, can you not? Do you want me to do it?

AT: Um, ooh…

EF: It’s a super small needle….

AT: I did it!

EF: Oh you did it! Amazing. Yeah, so we’ve just been, um, this is the um, [laughs], um, I’m currently making our Bodzine badge blanket, which a load of little badges of things we’ve done recently that we’re proud of, and wanted to celebrate.

Q: Right, and what are you making? What’s your…?

AT: I’m doing the back page, um, I’m tryna, like, embroider this bit, but I’ve learned that I could not embroider it. So I, like, did a bit of collage stuff with George Ellis photo down here, and then, expanded on it.

Q: Nice! Collaging seems to be quite a, kind of, a common theme whenever I see zines. Do, I mean, is there an… Aesthetically, it’s a nice thing to do. Is there anything else around collaging that’s kind of…

A: I’ve always done collages because, I think, the fact that you can make art from something that was originally just another article.

Q: Yeah, nice.

EF: I think it’s, um, I don’t know, it’s fun for ‘Nostalgia’ as well, because nostalgia feels like - lots of layers of stuff. And collaging is also lots of layers of stuff, and um ... everyone can, can do a collage. I’m not particularly good at, um… like fine art or painting or any other kind of, like what you’d traditionally think of as art... Whereas I find collaging quite fun and easy, and I think it’s quite an accessible art form. Because as long as you’ve got magazine, a glue stick, not even scissors - you don’t even need to cut anything, you can just use your hands - you can do it.

Q: Mh, nice. Um, with the, with ‘Roots and Roots’ being a project around people’s roots to Bodmin, and roots through Bodmin, out of the people here, who - who’s, would you say, ‘from’ Bodmin? Have you all grown up here?

A: I’ve lived - I grew up in Thailand and France.

Q: Okay - and when did you move to Bodmin?

A: Um, because, we could not buy property in Plymouth.

Q: Okay [laughs] and, so, when was that?

A: Um, I think, how long have I been… How long ago was Year 7?

AT: For you, four years ago.

A: So, a bit less than four, wait no, a bit more than four years [...] for a while... And then, nan got sick and we were just like “oh, got to take care of that”. Um, property in England’s really difficult to purchase. So we ended up in Bodmin.

workshop, November 2024 Q: Right, so do you feel like a connection to Bodmin, having been here for quite a short period of time, really?

A: I think it’s probably the most community-minded space I’ve been in, except for Thailand, because Thailand is, where I was, where I grew up, it was built on community because we were a smaller town, and you bought all your food from community, and things like that. But, I think, compared to France where I lived, which was equally [inaudible], I think Bodmin has more of a community to it.

Q: Uh, what about you... because you’ve, you were born here, right?

AT: Yeah, I feel like, I like visiting other places, but it’s nice to come back here for, like, the thing you know, like. The parks are still the parks from when you were younger and wanted to go on the swings and stuff. I think, it’s nice to like, be able to see what you grew up with, change in your eyes as you grow older as well.

Q: And you two are a bit older…

EF: Yeah…

Q: …And uh, are you… I remember when I was, uh, seventeen, about to leave college, all I wanted to do was to leave Bodmin, and have been like a mission for some time, like it was all about what to do when you finish school to get out of the town. Did you guys have a similar experience, or…?

BF: Um, I stayed in Bodmin for the first year of my degree, and sort of, at the end of my, the first year of my degree, I very much wanted to leave Bodmin - I wanted more traditional student lifestyle, uh. But I think since being in Plymouth, I have found myself missing Bodmin quite a bit more than I initially thought I would. I like Plymouth - I think Plymouth is quite similar to Bodmin in a lot of ways. I think both are unfortunately a bit run down for whatever reason might be. So, like, I do like Plymouth quite a lot, but I definitely have more of uh, more of a connection to Bodmin, that’s for sure.

Q: Do you think you’ll come back here?

BF : Um, I think I’d like to live in Cornwall still… it would just be where I could afford to live in Cornwall. I think, I mean, the job that I’d want - to be a field botanist, or to do something ecology-based - um, it’s not particularly well-paid, unfortunately. There are jobs in Cornwall around ecology and botany, but they’re not very well-paid, so….

Q: Um, and do you think you’ll come back after uni?

EF: I mean, yeah it’s the same thing where it’s just about jobs and what, uh, what there is for me. I mean… I’ve done a history degree and I’m doing a history masters, so the natural thing feels like heritage, which is kind of what I’m doing here, now, like, this is the sort of job that I’d want to do in the future, um. So, it doesn’t… it feels actually more, more like a possibility now than it did when I was eighteen and leaving, like I genuinely thought that if I was going to make something or do something for myself then I wouldn’t be able to do it here. Whereas now, I kind of feel like that could be an option...

But yeah, the last nine months have been the first time that I’ve, like, properly lived away from home. And, yeah, it’s weird, I didn’t think of myself as a very homesick person. But every single essay that I write, and every thing that I do, I end up talking about Cornwall and about home in some way that I didn’t necessarily expect, I guess. When I moved away, I thought it’d quite enjoy the freedom of like, actually being somewhere new.

BodZine Top Picks: Cornish Media & Cultural Resources!

On Cornish History:

(kresenkernow.org)

Translating to ‘Cornwall Centre’, the worlds largest collection of documents related to Cornwall’s history. Visit their archive in person at their centre in Redruth, or explore their extensive online collection!

(queerkernow.co.uk)

Uncovering LGBT+ stories from Cornwall’s past. Check out their website & look out for their partnerships with / talks at local museums and archives!

(bernarddeacon.com)

Bernard Deacon is a respected academic at the Cornish Studies Institute at Exeter Uni. His ‘Cornish Studies Resources’ is a web archive of Cornish history, surnames and society.

John James Morris Diaries:

(gocornish.org)

A dynamic and growing online resource for those wanting to learn or teach Kernewek!

This Nanstallon-based Farmer kept detailed diaries of his everyday life, giving us a unique insight into what it was like to live and work in a small village near Bodmin in the 1900s.

On Contemporary Cornwall:

Podcast: ‘The Reason Why’

by Seamas Carey

A podcast series exploring the social issues, hidden history and culture wars in modern day Cornwall. Carey offers nuanced conversations (and the odd controversial one too!) asking what it means to belong here.

Photography: ‘Cornish Maids’

by Fran Rowse

An award-winning ongoing youth project & photo series, aiming to confront contemporary ideas of Cornish Culture, highlighting the hidden world of poverty and girlhood in our homeland. (www.franrowse.com)

Podcast: ‘The Life & Times of a Cornish Funeral Director’ by David Bray

Ignore any preconceptions! This easy-going podcast is a gentle window into a long career spent serving a large local community, and all the -often amusing- stories that come with it. As well as discussing his own life, Bray also interviews a plethora of guests along the way.

Music: Martha Woods

A Cornish composer, performer and recording artist who pushes the boundaries of folk music in all directions.

Multi-instrumentalist Martha draws inspiration from old Cornish Tales and Folklore, blending them with her unique, vibrant mix of electro-folk. (www.marthawoodsmusic.com)

Comedy: ‘Degemeroryon’ (Receptionists)

Cornish Language Comedy Sitcom written by Ed Rowe (AKA Kernow King) & Mimi Attenburrow (Watch: cornwall365.com/collection/degemeroryon)

Desert Island Discs #2

GE/2/E/3571, 22nd November 1940, George Ellis on duty at ‘S.3’ Royal Observer Post on Bodmin Beacon.

Mr Ellis served with the Royal Observer Corps throughout the Second World War, and was also the only full-time press photographer left in Cornwall during these years.

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help in bringing this zine to life: ~The IntoBodmin Team ~Kresen Kernow ~National Lottery Heritage Fund ~Arts Council England ~All of the talented young people of Bodmin who have contributed to the Zine! ~George Ellis, who dedicated his life to recording those of others, providing a constant source of information & inspiration, & who’s legacy will continue on for many years to come!

-BZ