Penzance

Federation of Old Cornwall Societies Competition 2009/10

"CORNWALL IN THE FIFTIES"

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Society Officers

President : Mr. Phillip Rendle 2, Helnoweth Cottages, Gulval TR18 3BS Tel 01736 363762

Vice Pres.: Mr. Peter Collins, 10 Penrose Terrace, Penzance, TR18 2HQ

Secretary, Linda Collins, Hawthorne Cottage, Germoe, TR20 9QX Tel. 01736 763339

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Past President: Felicity Edwards, 9 Lansdowne Close, Penzance, TR18 4RJ

Treasurer : Sue Collins, 10 Penrose Terrace, Penzance, TR18 2HQ Tel. 01736 360506

Recorder, Cedric Appleby, Liseux, 12 Provis Road, Alverton, Penzance, TR18 4QQ Tel. 01736 332457

The society meets at Salvation Army Hall, 43. Queen Street, Penzance. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, September to April at 7.15pm.

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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.

Programme 2010 / 11

Talks at the Salvation Army Hall, Chapel St. Penzance


3rd July 2010	Federation Summer Festival, St Austell. 10-4.30pm

6th July 2010	Garden party at The Pirate Inn, Pz, 5.30-8.0pm. Tea and entertainment

21 September 2010	"Great Trees of Cornwall" by Loveday Jenkin	Loveday Jenkin

02 October 2010	Federation AGM, County Hall, Truro. 2.0pm

19 October 2010	"A Cornish Year" by David Chapman	David Chapman

13 November 2010	Federation Winter Festival, Town Hall, Wadebridge

16 November 2010	Members' Evening - contributions from members welcome. Please contact the Secretary

14th December 2010	A Seasonal Evening - TBA

18 January 2011	"Old Slides of Penzance" - a collection of old slides
	belonging to Martin Ellis, barber of New Street.

15 February 2011	"Cornish Lighthouses" by Alan Cox	Alan Cox

26 February 2011	Federation Spring Festival, County Hall, Truro. 2.0pm

15 March 2011	AGM
	Japanese TV Film of Visit to Newlyn

19 April 2011	"The Life and Times of William Murdoch", by Ivor Corkell	Ivor Corkell

All meetings held at the Salvation Army Hall, Queen Street, Penzance, at 7.15pm. Visitors welcome

For further information: Linda Collins, Hon Secretary, tel: 01736 763339

Federation Events

2010

Saturday 6th March 2010

Federation Spring Meeting

County Hall, Truro

Saturday 3rd July 2010

Summer Festival

Par

2nd October 2010

Annual General Meeting

County Hall, Truro 2.pm

13th November 2.pm

Winter Festival

TBA

Federation Journal published twice a year also newsletter to read on-line

Other Events

September 2010

Esethvos Kernow.

Eisteddfod of Cornwall.

St IVES

September 2010

Gorsedd

St IVES

Other Dates

5th March

St Piran's Day

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

Available from the Secretary, Linda Collins, Hawthorn Cottage, Germoe, Penzance TR20 9QX."

For further information contact e-mail - Linda[at]qdconsult.co.uk (replace [at] with @.

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