The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

this month on Cornwallcast we are joining in the celebration of the 175th anniversary since it was incorporated through Parliament in 1835. Chris Blount has provided extracts from a programme he made to celebrate the 150th in 1985. Just click on the link to go to the page.

This month we are also celebrating the publication of two new books The first is "Angletwich & Poppydock" a book of Dialect stories, rhymes, sayings and words and the second is a book of Cornish carol music with words from the Redruth, St Agnes District. Both retail at £5 and you can view sample pages and purchase by clicking here.

The organisers of Kernewek Lowender have sent us their latest newsletter and this can by viewed on the Diaspora page

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The Ballarat Newsletter has arrived and can be found on the Diaspora page.

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Don't miss the Federations Summer Festival which will be held on Saturday the 3rd of July at Penrice College, St Austell. For full details and programme click on the box on the right.

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Holy Communion in Cornish service at Gwennap Pit at 3pm on Sunday 4th July. Photo and directions . Off road parking is available.

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Callington Midsummer Bonfire (photo Gill Naylor)

For a full report of the Callington Midsummer's Eve Bonfire celebrations click here.

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St Just in Penwith Old Cornwall celebrated Mid Summers Eve with the lighting of the annual Fire on Carn Brea in their parish. Lady of the Flowers was Mrs. Gillian Hocking. There were approx.140 people present. Mary King.

Other Old Cornwall Societies holding celebration fires Redruth, St Ives, St Columb and Callington.

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Malc McCarthy a member of the Padstow OCS committee has sent me details of his collection of old photos - with the offer that 30% of the purchase fee for any photo will be donated to the Federation. The collection contains over 400 photos so enjoy having a browse.

Malc has also got over 1500 documents which are being lodged at the Cornwall Record Office as the "Malcolm McCarthy Collection". He has been working with volunteers to index and transcribe them all. The Index is online at the Cornwall OPC web site and if you find a document which is of use in your research you can contact Malc and he will happily send you a transcript. His e-mail address is on the Index introduction page. You can find a link to the index page HERE

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The Federation Secretary Ivor Corkell is now doing Shelterbox presentations and will be happy to do an illustrated presentation to ANY OCS if needed. I should generally be available at fairly short notice so if any Society is stuck for a speaker they could ring me on 01209 714037.

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You may have noticed that the music on our home page has changed. We are now playing a selection of Cornish furry dance tunes arranged by Merv Davey our Music Recorder and played by Merv and people who took part in a workshop at Rescorla Festival . For a musical score and more information click here

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We have also done some work on the Old Cornwall e-book library we now have over 330 books for you to enjoy. Remember that all the books are word searchable so if you are interested in a specific item or name once you have opened a book just type it in the search bar and click. Amongst the collection are 23 works from the pen of Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, those of our readers living in Cornwall may like to go along to an evening at Helston on the 20th of May. [See the box on the right.]

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We welcome new members and if you live in Cornwall you can find the Society nearest to you and come along to a meeting. If you live outside of Cornwall and would like to support our work and learn more about Cornwall then please consider taking out a subscription to the Old Cornwall Journal.

EARLY WARNING

Flora O'Hagan has been in touch to tell us that the dates for the 16th Gathering of Cornish Cousins has been changed to the 10-14 August 2011 - in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA.. So mark it on the diary and start saving.

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If your family is one of the many which left the Homeland, I would encourage you to read the article which was written by Robert Morton Nance in 1925 in which he lays out what the aims of our movement are. Some of the things which he referred to in the article are now looked after by the Cornish Gorsedd, Old Cornwall's companion organisation. You can visit the Gorsedd web site by clicking on the link in the left hand panel.

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Don't forget the competition on "Life in Cornwall in the 1950's.". This will run to the end of March 2011. Click here to go to the competition page and to view some news clips which may help inspire you to take part. These are courtesy of Pathe News.

The Winter Newsletter is now on-line and you can read it here

Post Box Recording Project: You can find a report by our Local History Recorder Andrew Langdon by clicking here

George Pritchard 1st May 2010.

Web master.

Copyright

Please note that all material on this site is copyright and may not be used without permission.

The above statement has been added to The website in order to protect the work of people who write articles and provide photographs for the Federation to publish. For some time people have been reproducing articles from the Federation journal without asking and this has led to complaints from some authors who are annoyed that people did not have the courtesy to ask. If you wish to reproduce something which has been published by the Federation then please write seeking permission to Mr Terry Knight, Publications Editor, knight-at-wingfield5.fsnet.co.uk replacing -at- with @.

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The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

Summer Festival

Will be held at Penrice College, St Austell

On Saturday the 3rd of July

Commencing at 10.0am.

Click here to see the programme

It is time to nominate the Heritage Champion 2010 for the Sir Richard Trant Memorial Award This is an annual award instituted by The Cornwall Heritage Trust to honour the life and work of the late Sir Richard Trant,

Click here for full details.

Holy Communion in Cornish

service at Gwennap Pit at 3pm on Sunday 4th July.

Photo and directions

. Off road parking is available.