A Cornish town has celebrated its most famous citizen by staging a day-long jamboree which saw residents dancing through the streets.
Murdoch Day in Redruth saw an array of free, live entertainment, a host of market stalls, an all-day barbecue and even a mini beer festival.
Town centre manager Lee Dunkley said the numbers attending were still be totted up but he had no doubt that it was the most successful day ever in the event's history.
"It was fantastic," he said. "We have had people here from first thing in the morning and they're still going strong in the afternoon.
"The children's dance in the morning, which has been called the Murdoch Spring Dance, was very popular and in the afternoon was a community dance specially choreographed by the Bev-Lynn School of Dancing."
Mr Dunkley said the weather had played its part in drawing the crowds into town.
But he said a hi-tech approach to organising the event had also worked.
This year a special app can be downloaded from the VisitRedruth website which gives a map of where events are happening in the town. For those who prefer a more lo-tech approach, a total of 2,000 leaflets were also handed out
Mr Dunkley paid tribute to the army of volunteers who made Murdoch Day such a success.
"They are such an important part of the whole event," he said.
Though he was not born in Cornwall, William Murdoch, who died in 1839, is revered as a mechanical genius who improved the efficiency of steam engines in Cornwall's tin mines. He was a pioneer of gas lighting and famed for building Britain's first working model of a steam carriage which he demonstrated in and around Redruth in 1784.
