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Cornish Coffee Morning

02/08/2014 @ 10:30 - 12:00

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Date: 02/08/2014
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10:30 - 12:00
Event Category: Fairs

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Morrab Library

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The Morrab Library, Morrab Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4DA

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Today's Photo Friday shows an image of Richards Ph

Today's Photo Friday shows an image of Richards Photographer's shop window in Queen Street, Penzance.

A reflection of the opposite side of the street can be seen in the glass.

Thousands of images from the Richards family dynasty can be found in our Photo Archive collections. Link in bio.

#PhotoFriday #Photography #Penzance #LocalHistory

Our Christmas Fair on 22nd November will feature a

Our Christmas Fair on 22nd November will feature a raffle with brilliant prizes from a number of local businesses.

Our enormous thanks to porcelain artist Rebecca Harvey, Sarah from Rosewall Bakery, and our friends at Polgoon Vineyard Savoy Cinema, and the Edge of the World Bookshop!

@polgoonvineyard @rosewallbakery @savoypenzance @cornishpots
@edgeoftheworldbookshop

We have another wonderful Library Talk up on our w

We have another wonderful Library Talk up on our website - this time from Dr Russell Blacker.

Musical archeology: the reconstruction of eleven works from the Eton Choirbook.

Find the recording here: https://morrablibrary.org.uk/librarytalks/

After watching, any donation, no matter how small, really helps the Library as an independent charity.

#explore #cornwall #library #talk

This month’s theme is reflection - taking a mome

This month’s theme is reflection - taking a moment to look back, before we all leap forward into a new month and then a new year!

And what better way to start than reflecting on how grateful we are to all of our amazing volunteers for their hard work. This afternoon we were able to spend a little bit of time away from the hubbub enjoying afternoon tea with them.

Without their hard work, expertise and dedication, the Library would not be what it is today.

#Library #volunteer #supportus #thankyou

Happy Halloween! Whether you celebrate All Hallow

Happy Halloween!

Whether you celebrate All Hallow’s Eve or not, Cornwall has its own celebration for the evening of the 31st October.

Allantide focuses on the apple. Allan markets would be held beforehand selling glossy, sweet, red apples which were known as Allan apples and were gifted to family members to bring good luck.

The festival is thought to have associations with the Cornish or Breton Saint Allan, a 6th Century Bishop.

The following is a description of the festival as it was celebrated in Penzance at the turn of the 19th century:

"The shops in Penzance would display Allan apples, which were highly polished large apples. On the day itself, these apples were given as gifts to each member of the family as a token of good luck. Older girls would place these apples under their pillows and hope to dream of the person whom they would one day marry. A local game is also recorded where two pieces of wood were nailed together in the shape of a cross. It was then suspended with 4 candles on each outcrop of the cross shape. Allan apples would then be suspended under the cross. The goal of the game was to catch the apples in your mouth, with hot wax being the penalty for slowness or inaccuracy."

Image: Eight children in costumes at Hayle Towans. This might have been for a carnival. Morrab Library Photographic Archive

#photofriday #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive

It was a joy to welcome our youngest members and f

It was a joy to welcome our youngest members and friends to the library for Spooky Storytime this week. We made a joyous mess doing all sorts of craft activities!

#SchoolHolidays #HalfTerm #KidsInLibraries #Storytime #Halloween 9

Cornish Folk-Lore by Robert Hunt is a short and sw

Cornish Folk-Lore by Robert Hunt is a short and sweet publication of a handful of Cornish folktales, stories and superstitions. Delve into The Hurlers, Ordulph the Giant, ghosts, Spriggans and more.

Another recommendation of ours is M. A. Courtney’s Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore, an intriguing mix of games, traditions, stories, accounts from our county.

When talking about ‘Charms,etc’, it states:

‘Should you in marrying “change the name, and not the letter, You’ll change for the worse, and not for the better” but it is lucky if your initials form a word.

#Library #write #folktale #folklore

A suitably spooky subject in the lead up to All Ha

A suitably spooky subject in the lead up to All Hallow’s Eve!

Dr Serena Trowbridge gave a talk about Mary Shelley’s classic novel and it’s impacts on the literary world.

Frankenstein and its legacies with Serena Trowbridge

Find this talk, as well as all the other recordings of previous talks, here: https://shorturl.at/rgszw

After watching, any donation, no matter how small, really helps the Library.

#explore #cornwall #library #talk

Our photo Friday takes us away from Penzance, abou

Our photo Friday takes us away from Penzance, about an hours drive from the Library's red doors.

Do you know the legend of the Owlman of Mawnan Smith? This is a slightly more ‘modern’ folktale, with its roots based on a sighting of the beast by 2 boys in 1926. A report from the Cornish Echo recounts how the terrified boys ran and took cover behind a large metal grate.

The next reported sighting came some 50 years later in 1976. Two witnesses described an abnormally large bird resembling a giant owl flying over the tower of the 13th century parish church in Mawnan Smith.

Stanley Opie, “Mawnan Church,” Morrab Library Photographic Archive

#photofriday #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive

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