Redruth celebrated inventor William Murdoch on Saturday with a riotous festival in the town centre. 

A parade featured the Redruth Town Band and the Redruth Festival Band, children from local schools and community groups, RAF cadets, performers from Lowender and giant puppets by puppets by Shallal. 

It was also the first official engagement of new Redruth mayor Cllr Max Morrison, at 17 one of the youngest in the country. 

Murdoch lived in Redruth between 1782 and 1798, while he was employed to look after steam engines in the Cornish tin mines.

His home in cross street was the first building in the world to be lit by gas lighting. 

It is now the home of the Cornish Global Migration Programme, a complex database containing biographical details of many thousands of Cornish migrants worldwide.