Newquay Old Cornwall Society

16/08/2026

The Vice Chair & members of the Newquay Old Cornwall Society attended the Prayer Book Rebellion Service at St Petroc’s Church in Bodmin today, alongside our fellow Old Cornwall Societies and other heritage groups.

Also represented at the service was Celtic Nation Kernow, coming together to remember and commemorate this important part of Cornwall’s history and heritage.

13/08/2026

Prayer Book Rising Commemoration of 1549

Will from the Newquay Old Cornwall Society will be representing us, together with Newquay Museum Group at this year’s Prayer Book Rising Commemoration and parading our society banner.

All are welcome to join us at this important annual commemoration, alongside many other Cornish societies, groups and organisations.

It will be taking place at 3:00pm on Sunday 16th August 2026 at St Petroc’s Church, Bodmin.

Our thanks goes to Bodmin Old Cornwall Society for once again organising this special event.

23/07/2026

Do you remember the SS Torrey Canyon oil spill of 1967?

Mor Media Charity are inviting people to share their memories, stories, photographs, documents and films as part of Black Tide, a project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Whether you witnessed the disaster, helped with the clean-up, or havestories or memorabilia, your contribution could help preserve this important chapter in the history of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly ahead of the 60th anniversary in 2027.

Please share this post to help reach anyone with memories of the Torrey Canyon and its lasting impact.

Find out more or contribute your story at:
https://www.mormediacharity.org/thesstorreycanyon

23/06/2026

A reminder that St Columb Old Cornwall Society will be celebrating Tansys Golowan with their bonfire at Castle an Dinas tonight at 7:00pm. All are welcome. Refreshments and singing following the ceremony held in Kernewek and English.

19/06/2026

Stories from the station shares some of the aspects of Newquay railway line from the 1849 mineral tramway, now 150 years since the first passenger train arrived in Newquay on 20th June 1876.

18/06/2026

Today we say a final farewell to our dear friend and immediate past president of Newquay Old Cornwall Society. Elizabeth Carne has contributed hugely to the town of Newquay as well as a massive contribution to Cornish cultural heritage.

In order to better preserve her memory and share the wonderful work undertaken by her there is a page on the Newquay Museum Group website. This will be added to over the coming weeks as more images and videos are discovered.

Newquay should be very proud of Liz for her community work and for her attaining the role of Grand Bard of Gorsedh Kernow.

Liz veurgerys, re bowesso yn kres.

This page remembers just some of the many contributions Elizabeth Carne made to Newquay and the cultural heritage of Cornwall. Much more will be added sharing something from her groups and individuals

28/05/2026

Really sad to see another theft occurring from our local community Newquay Museum Group.

Once again the small number of volunteers at Newquay Museum Group have been shocked at another theft from the donation box. We are financially poorly supported so every loss is upsetting. Most of our donations come from visitors to Newquay.

This time we know who the thief is as he was captured on CCTV and we will be contacting BID and the police. Not that any charge is likely to be made against him but we would want to put other businesses and charities on warning.

Guy was aged about 50, bald, wearing glasses and blue top and shorts. We feel that this scumbag is local.

The donation box will in future be kept in Proper Photography Kernow and a QR Code provided to access our Sumup payment option via our website at https://newquaymuseum.org/donations/

11/05/2026

From our friends at the Crantock Story Cafe - ‘An everyday story of country folk'.

Ben Dobson is presenting the story of the Jenkin family who lived at Trevowah Farm, Crantock in the 1800’s.

We hope you can join us on Monday 11th May at 7pm in the restaurant at Halwyn Driving Range TR8 5TR. This is a free event with donation to Crantock SLSC.

26/04/2026

Check out the Newquay St Pirans Festival Group video. Nice to see our William featured carrying our NOCS banner at the front of the parade. Willie has done sterling work over several years in carrying our banner at various events including the Gorsedh Kernow Esedhvos. Click the video image link to view.

Some lovely celebrations and views of Newquay captured in this video which is dedicated to a great friend and son of Newquay, Rob Spowart. Lots more information about Newquay St Piran's and Rob Spowart on their website at www.newquaystpiransfestival.org

https://youtu.be/w1awc0zuNt0

Newquay St Pirans video 2026

22/04/2026

Its wonderful to see our oldest hotel having a well deserved refurbishment.

Newquay Museum & our volunteer William Emmett kindly provided a number of historic pictures of the town for phase 1 of the refurbishment which have been displayed throughout the Trennarren wing of the hotel.

The improvements mark a significant milestone in the building’s transformation