Old Cornwall Society

President :  Prebendary  Jim  Vincent       Chairman :  Dr  John  Chesterfield

List of Speakers for the 2011 – 2012 Meetings

Meetings are currently being held in Chacewater Bowling Club House ( Falmouth Road, Chacewater ) and begin at 7.30 pm.Visitors always welcome – £1 per meeting.  For more information please contact the secretary, Mrs Carol Heathcote, by e-mail at c.heathcote@btinternet.com

Date	Speaker	Subject
MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2011	Mr David Thomas	“The Bassets of Tehidy”
MONDAY 10 OCTOBER 2011	Mr John Peck	“South Crofty & Wheal Jane” underground, overground
MONDAY  14 NOVEMBER 2011	Mrs Bryher Scudamore	“From That’s Life to My Life”
MONDAY 12 DECEMBER 2011	Mr Tony Mansell	“The Civil War in Cornwall”
MONDAY 9 JANUARY 2012 - A.G.M.	Mr James Williams DL	“A Year as High Sheriff”
MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2012	Dr Peter Whitbread-Abrutat	“Travels with Churchill!”
MONDAY 12 MARCH 2012	Mr Andrew Langdon	“Cornish Crosses : Discovery, Repair & Restoration”
MONDAY 16 APRIL 2012	Mr Ivor Corkell	“Photographing our Cornish Heritage”
MONDAY 14 MAY 2012	Guide – Mr Clive Buckingham	A Visit to Billy Bray’s Chapel
MONDAY 21 MAY 2012	Guide – Mrs Christine Parnell	A Walk Around Parts of Truro

Chacewater Old Cornwall Society –

Mr Ivor Corkell is the Honorary Secretary of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies and he is a keen photographer. He told us about “Images of England”, an online photographic archive of listed buildings, and displayed many pictures that he had taken as part of the project. An amazing variety of buildings can be seen at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/ and if the photos that we saw at our last meeting are an example of the entire collection, it is a wonderful historical record of constructions pictured at the turn of the 21st century.

Ivor also took great delight in telling us about some of the people he had met during the time that he was recording the buildings and it was an example to us all to take photographs around our beautiful Duchy.

Members are asked to note the changes to the end of the current season.

As you can see in the events listings at the front of What’s On, the meeting on 14th May will now be a guided visit to Billy Bray’s Chapel at Kerley. Please meet in the chapel car park at 7pm.

The following Monday – 21st May – Christine Parnell will take us on a walk around parts of the city. Please meet at the front of the Cathedral at 7pm. It will be a gentle, unhurried walk and it will not last longer than 1 hour.

Carol Heathcote