Various events marking the 100th anniversary of one of Cornwall's most famous mines will be occurring in the coming week.

The Prince of Wales Mine, a Phoenix United-owned mine at Minions, was opened on June 10, 1909, by the Prince and Princess of Wales, who in the following year became King George V and Queen Mary on the death of Edward VII. A month-long series of exhibitions celebrating Caradon Hill communities past and present and entitled Phoenix 100 is being staged.

It includes exhibitions at Stuart House, Lisk-eard, and in The Lisk-eard and District Museum, culminating with an official opening of the celebrations this Wednesday at Minions.

A community play entitled Gonamena, set in the mines of Caradon Hill, is to be performed at the Sterts Theatre. Beginning tomorrow, there will be performances throughout this month and next.

Sharing her own anniversary with the mine's opening is Liskeard resident Mrs Ellen Dennis, who will celebrate her 100th birthday on June 10. She is pictured with former Liskeard mayor Anne Purdon under a photo showing Webb's House – then a hotel and now the Cornish Times' office – as a backdrop while the royal car passes by on the day she was born in 1909.