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Newquay Museum Group - Illustrated Talks
Newquay Museum - Set programme of illustrated talks 2024 2025
The Newquay Museum 2024/2025 season of illustrated talks is taking place in the Function Room at the Great Western Hotel in Newquay. These provide a wide range of topics relating to Cornwall and will be augmented by additional events taking place in the Cornish Gallery Lounge at the Museum and at other venues. For decades these talks have been hosted by Newquay Old Cornwall Society, but in order to be more wide ranging NOCS are working with our museum partners and supporting groups to promote local Newquay and district and Cornish heritage.
All are welcome to these talks and the Great Western Hotel talks are free to members of Newquay Old Cornwall Society who also receive other benefits. Membership is just £10.00 per annum. Dynnargh, onen hag oll! / Welcome, one and all!
Posters for individual events and activities by Newquay Museum, Newquay Old Cornwall Society, Kowethas Ertach Kernow and St Mawgan History Group will be listed below as and when they have been organised.
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Posted: 22.09.2024
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Newquay Museum Group - Illustrated Talk - October 2024
‘Cornwall Heritage Trust - Sites throughout Cornwall special reference to Mid-Cornwall’
Dick Cole is perhaps best known for leading Mebyon Kernow, the party for Cornwall, since 1997. He was elected to serve his home parish of St Enoder on Restormel Borough Council in 1999 and, in 2009, stood down from his employment with the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, so that he could stand for election to Cornwall Council. He is The Site Officer for Cornwall Heritage Trust with extensive knowledge of its sites and Cornish archaeology.
Dick is a bard of Gorsedh Kernow – Gwythyas an Tir (Guardian of the Land)
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Posted: 05.11.2024
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Newquay Museum Group - Illustrated Talk - October 2024
‘Milva Kernow’ A Cornish Bestiary – From the horse skull ‘Penglaze’ to the Beast of Bodmin
Dr Merv Davey is a Newquay boy. A past Grand Bard of Gorsedh Kernow and one of the founders of the Cornish National Music Archive. He completed a PhD with Exeter University researching folk song, dance and identity in Cornwall and has written a range of articles and books on Cornish folk tradition. Merv plays regularly with the North Cornwall Ceilidh Band and does duty as itinerant bagpiper for Cornish events and Guize dance traditions throughout the year. Many may recognise his as the lead piper at Newquay's annual St Piran's Day parade through the town.
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Posted: 22.09.2024
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Newquay Museum Group - Illustrated Talk - September 2024
History of Cornwall's tourist industry
Cornwall came late to tourism. Before the Royal Albert Bridge in 1859, only a few intrepid travellers ventured over the Tamar. JMW Turner, Daniel Defoe, and an extraordinary woman adventurer (Celia Fiennes) were among the more interesting. Other famous novelists then made the trek (Dickens and Wilkie Collins). But less well known travellers also came and left records. Why did they come? What did they see? How did they travel? Where did they stay? What kind of welcome did they get? What did they think of Cornwall and the Cornish? With the coming of the railway, we saw the emergence of the artists' colonies, as well as the emergence of people one can start calling tourists rather than travellers. Louis will take the story up to the early 1900s when the idea of the "Cornish Riviera" and mass tourism started to emerge.
Posted: 26.08.2024
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Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
A leading member of the Newquay Museum Group is Newquay Old Cornwall Society established in 1928 and the leading heritage group covering the seven parishes in the Newquay area. This incorporates the St Mawgan History Group and its archive within the wider extensive Newquay OCS archive at Newquay Museum.
Newquay OCS is one of around forty societies in Cornwall who are part of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies whose ethos is to preserve and protect and to gather the fragments of Cornish heritage. One of the most proactive societies Newquay has museum / archive facilities on two sites at Dairyland Farm World on the outskirts of Newquay and in central Newquay where it shares facilities with Kowethas Ertach Kernow. It also has a archaeology group NOCAG who carryout preservation and protection work on a number of sites throughout the local area. Newquay OCS in conjunction with its partners also carryout events and activities at festivals and with other local organisations.
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NOCAG - Archaeology at Newquay Library
For many years Newquay Old Cornwall Society have run a very successful group who work hard to clear and maintain archaeological sites in and around Newquay. Based at Newquay Museum the Newquay Old Cornwall Archaeological Group (NOCAG) is led by Sheila Harper.
Sheila will be at Newquay Library at 2:00pm on Saturday 20th July with a display and to talk about the work of the group in Newquay and surrounding parishes. Their activities cover several historic sites where they carry out important preservation clearance work,
There will also be a display of various archaeological artefacts with many being able to handle. A larger display is in the Newquay Museum ‘Corridor Gallery’ including Cornish minerals and other artefacts.
Posted: 11.07.2024
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NOCAG Guided Tour at Mawgan Porth early medieval village
Newquay Old Cornwall Society archaeological group [NOCAG] have worked on the early medieval village site at Mawgan Porth for the last 10 years.
As part of this year’s British Archaeological Council festival the group leader Sheila Harper will be giving a guided tour and talk at the site on Sunday 14th July at 2:00pm.
Find out more about this site and the other work of NOCAG in and around Newquay.
All are welcome to this free event; location is above the putting green at Mawgan Porth
Posted: 10.07.2024
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Ertach Kernow - Cornish heritage weekly articles
Each week a new article relating to Cornwall under the Ertach Kernow banner is published in the Voice newspapers, Cornish Times and Cornish & Devon Post. These are produced by our colleague running Kowethas Ertach Kernow.
Clicking the newspaper page will provide links to the latest article published online on the Kowethas Ertach Kernow website. On that page there are now over 200 articles listed relating to Cornish History, culture and its environment.
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Kowethas Ertach Kernow - Activities
Kowethas Ertach Kernow shares many aspects of Cornish heritage working with Newquay Old Cornwall Society in running Newquay Museum in the centre of Newquay.
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Newquay Museum - What we do for Newquay and districts heritage
An active organisation working with Newquay Old Cornwall Society and Kowethas Ertach Kernow. Newquay Old Cornwall Society host monthly meetings with experts on Cornish history, culture and environmental topics. There are two museums and an extensive archive located at Dairyland Farm World and in the centre of Newquay. The Newquay Old Cornwall Archaeological Group [NOCAG] carry out clearance and protection work of local historic sites and monuments.
The groups also carries out research, exhibitions, illustrated talks and a number of other projects recording our local areas heritage and development. Where this is interest other projects are carried out preserving knowledge, records and artefacts.
You are very welcome to join us.