The questions were devised by young volunteers to encourage thought about Pendennis Castle, history & heritage.

What do you think ......?

What does being Cornish mean to you?

What do you think of when you hear ‘Pendennis Castle’?

What do you associate with castles?

Tell us about a time you’ve seen a castle

Describe your perfect ship voyage

Would you be a pirate or a knight – why?

What sort of role do you think Cornwall or Pendennis Castle played in defending Great Britain in World War 2 ?

How would you imagine life as a soldier at a fort?

What does heritage / history mean to you?

If you could travel the world, where would you go – why?

What other historical places have you been to in Cornwall? What did you like?

Pendennis Castle dates from 1500… when would you have liked to live there – why?

If you were preserving something from now for people to look at in hundreds of years time, what would you preserve - who for?

Have you ever been rationed? If not, what do you think it would be like?

Choose 2 objects and make a story about them and you and a castle

What would you use to invade a castle?

What would you do if you found yourself in Tudor times?

Would you be a semaphore signaler or a gunner – why?

Would you be a tour guide or a café staff – why?

If you were under siege & could only send a text to one person – what

would it be?

We can have upto 8 postcard designs - full colour front, black back.

They could be just one photo on the front, or maybe a collage of several photos, a hand drawn picture/comic strip,text over a picture - or anything else you think would work!

So please add a comment to suggest photos from the flickr group (from Monday at the Castle) that you think would work - or let us know if you're working on a design, or any ideas. You can post images here or to the flickr account - or send to Jackie by email. Jackie & Bec will be meeting on Tuesday 4th August to finalise the designs & send to printer - so it's a very quick turn around!

The aim of the postcards is:

to give out at outreach portrait-making sessions during the summer, as an invite to the Heritage Open Day at the castle where people can see their portrait and explore the trail of portraits around the site - or bring friends to have portraits taken during the open day. Also to give them the blog address as a way to follow the project, and take part.

to have a second print run after the outreach sessions (same front, different back info) that promotes the open day, times of shuttle bus, activity at the event, and blog/flickr to send in your own portrait if you havent already made one!

Here's a couple of examples from other projects. The print company we will probably use is http://www.gillinghampress.co.uk/3.html (tech specs: min. 300dpi, 3mm bleed CMYK, text rasterised, format: pdf /tiff with layers) - if that doesnt mean anything to you, don't worry, just keep the quality/file size as high as possible and we'll sort it out afterwards!

[Postcards by young people from Warminster Youth Centre on Evolving Landscapes http://www.wyap.org.uk/]

[Postcards from Jackie's recent project in St James's Park]