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Penzance OCS past President Mrs Felicity Edwards with the Society banner. Photo credit Linda Collins
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Gowethas
Kernow Goth Pensans
Founded : 1926
Colours : Old Gold
Click on photo for jigsaw
This is still a butcher shop today on the corner of
Chapel and Queen streets. Photo available from the Morrab Library
Click for information on our Penzance & Newlyn book
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Society Officers President-
Mr. Richard Clark The
secretary is Mrs Ros Prigg who can be contacted at:
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The society meets at Salvation Army Hall, 43. Queen Street, Penzance. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, September to April at 7.15pm. The society has a very full year long programme with talks from September to April and pilgrimages in the summer. See below for details Our membership fee is £4-00 per yr.
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Trips Out & About All
the items in BLACK are what I have ordered coaches for already and I
am organising. The
coach is usually limited seating 25 so book early is the motto. Seats
must be paid for unless 3days notice is given. Priority is given to
members. Items
in RED are
things we join in with other groups. So really I can organise a coach
but it usually means car share. It just depends
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| Thursday 15th May | Trip to Tregrehan Gardens, visiting Charlestown for lunch, guided garden tour £4.50 | Pick up Newlyn 11.00am. + coach approx £7/8 |
| Wednesday 18th June |
Trip to Trecarrell Manor visiting Chapel and Medieval Hall, £4.00 will include cream tea.. Lunch in Launceston. |
Pick up Newlyn 10.30am. +coach approx £8/9 |
| Monday 23rdJune |
Midsummer Bonfire join Madron O.C.S. Bulls View at 9.00pm. Music, songs & refreshments |
Ring Ros. Car share |
| Tuesday 29th July | Trip to Warleggan, tour of church, village & Carburrow Tor guided followed by barbeque £3.00 | Pick up Newlyn 1.30pm +coach approx £7/8 |
| Monday 4th August | Evening boat trip up the Fal, to Truro & Devoran with historical guide £8.00 includes pasty. On board bar. | Pick up Newlyn 4.30pm. +coach approx £6/7 |
| Friday 15th August | Trip to St Day town trail guided, lunch locally and tea in hall. | Pick up Newlyn bridge 11.00am £3.00 tea + coach approx £6/7 |
| Friday 5th Sept | Crying the neck. Madron 6.30pm Penzance Town band, then Church service and pasty Supper & dancing at Landithy Hall. | Car share. Ring Ros to book pasty. |
| Sunday 19st October | Trip to Harvest Thanksgiving at Billy Bray’s, “Three Eyes” Chapel, Kerley Downs, Chacewater. Preacher Rev’d Joe Ridholls with Falmouth Methodist Choir | Newlyn pick up 1pm. Coach approx £5/6 |
| Talks at the Salvation Army Hall, Chapel St. Penzance | ||
| Tuesday 16th Sept | Illustrated
talk, “Heyday of the Cornish Pilchard Seine Fishery”
by Brian Stevens |
Tea & biscuits after. 7.15pm |
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| 5th July |
Banner
Parade. Trips Cotehele or St Ives or Town walk |
Callington
Pick up Newlyn 9.00am. + coach £8/9 |
| 1st November 2.pm | Winter Festival | Bodmin |
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Federation Journal published twice a year |
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| August
2008
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Esethvos
Kernow.
Eisteddfod of Cornwall. |
Looe |
| Saturday 6th Sept | Gorsedd | Looe
Ring Ros for details Coach if needed. |
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Sunday 19th October
Trip to Harvest Thanksgiving at Billy Bray’s, “Three Eyes” Chapel, Kerley Downs,Chacewater. Preacher Rev’d Joe Ridholls with Falmouth Methodist Choir Newlyn pick up 1pm
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The Penzance Society will support the Madron Old Cornwall Societies ceremony of crying the neck at Madron on the 5th September which will be followed by a traditional pasty supper. For a full report and photos of the 2006 ceremony click here
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Tuesday 16th Sept
Illustrated talk, “Heyday of the Cornish Pilchard Seine Fishery” by Brian Stevens Tea & biscuits after. 7.15pm
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A publication by Margaret Perry has been published to celebrate 80 years of Penzance OCS. The book is a miscellany of articles, stories, poetry and local history drawn from the archive records of the Society. It has 120 pages and over sixty illustrations ranging from sketches and early photographs to modern colour photography. Items include dialect stories and verse and an article on the origins of Golowan in Cornish (with an English translation). Compiled and edited by Penzance OCS member Margaret Perry. The author of A Brief History of Mousehole and a companion book on Newlyn, she has contributed to three publications of the Penwith Local History Group and edited Growing Up With Boats, the autobiography of William Stevenson of Newlyn.
Click to see an enlarged version It's available from Penzance OCS, 24 Charles Street, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5QB at £9.95 Postage &Packing is free For further information contact e-mail - margareteperry@newlyn24.fsnet.co.uk
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