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  • October 2015

  • Wed 14

    WINTER LECTURE SERIES: Linda Cracknell – ‘Reading the Short Story: how to get more out of less’

    14/10/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:30
    Morrab Library

    Free admission - donations gratefully received. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

  • Fri 16

    FREE LIBRARY TOUR

    16/10/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    Morrab Library
  • Fri 30

    FREE LIBRARY TOUR

    30/10/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    Morrab Library
  • November 2015

  • Fri 6

    CANCELLED: FREE LIBRARY TOUR

    06/11/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    Morrab Library

    Apologies but today's Library tour has been cancelled.

  • Tue 10

    Volunteers Meeting

    10/11/2015 @ 10:30 - 11:30
    Morrab Library

    Morrab Library volunteers are invited to join Mary Ellery for coffee and biscuits as a small thank you.

  • Tue 10

    Volunteers Meeting

    10/11/2015 @ 10:30 - 11:30
    Morrab Library

    Morrab Library volunteers are invited to join Mary Ellery for coffee and biscuits as a small thank you.

  • Wed 11

    WINTER LECTURE SERIES: Stuart Emmett ‘The Tudor Tin Mine’

    11/11/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:30
    Morrab Library

    Free admission - donations gratefully received. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

  • Wed 11

    WINTER LECTURE SERIES: Stuart Emmett ‘The Tudor Tin Mine’

    11/11/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:30
    Morrab Library

    Free admission - donations gratefully received. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

  • Fri 13

    FREE LIBRARY TOUR

    13/11/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    Morrab Library
  • Sat 14

    Craft Fair

    14/11/2015 @ 10:00 - 14:00
    Morrab Library
  • Fri 27

    FREE LIBRARY TOUR

    27/11/2015 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    Morrab Library
  • December 2015

  • Sat 12

    Christmas Party

    12/12/2015 @ 10:00 - 13:00
    Morrab Library

    Members are invited to celebrate the festive season at the Morrab with a glass of something warming and some tasty festive fare

  • Wed 23

    Christmas Closing

    23/12/2015
    Morrab Library

    The Library will close for the Christmas period today at 4pm and re-open on Tuesday 5th January 2016 at 10am. Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

  • Fri 25

    LIBRARY CLOSED

    25/12/2015
    Morrab Library

    Library closed for the festive period, re-opening Tuesday 5th January

  • January 2016

  • Tue 5

    LIBRARY RE-OPENS

    05/01/2016
    Morrab Library

    Happy new year! The Library will be open again as usual from 10am today.

  • Fri 8

    FREE LIBRARY TOUR

    08/01/2016 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    Morrab Library

    Join Linda for a free tour of the library

    Free
  • Wed 13

    WINTER LECTURE SERIES: John Potter Film

    13/01/2016 @ 14:00 - 15:30
    Morrab Library

    Free admission - donations gratefully received. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

  • February 2016

  • Wed 10

    WINTER LECTURE SERIES: Professor Brown – Lindisfarne, Kells, Bodmin. The Great Gospels of Medieval Britain

    10/02/2016 @ 14:00 - 15:30
    Morrab Library

    Free admission - donations gratefully received. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

  • March 2016

  • Mon 7

    AGM

    07/03/2016 @ 14:00 - 15:00
    The Queens Hotel The Promenade, Penzance

    2pm at The Queens Hotel, Penzance

  • Wed 9

    Update – WINTER LECTURE SERIES: Professor John Dancy, The Normandy Campaign and the Legion D’Honneur

    09/03/2016 @ 14:00 - 15:30
    Morrab Library

    WINTER LECTURE SERIES UPDATE - The scheduled talk from Dan Garside on Africa & Books has been cancelled. Alternatively, Professor John Dancy will be giving a talk on The Normandy Campaign and the Legion D'Honneur. Free admission - donations gratefully received. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

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Will you be joining us on Friday for our free tour Will you be joining us on Friday for our free tour? Find out about the beautiful building we call home, the Library's history in Penzance and more!

Just drop in to the library to join this free guided tour - Friday 12th June.

#Library #librarytour #Loveyourlibrary #LovePenzance
With #Golowan starting this month - one of our fav With #Golowan starting this month - one of our favourite festive times in Penzance- we thought we would explore our collections for some information on its origins. William #Borlase, in his 1754 book, ‘Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall’, describes some of the festivities back then:

“In Cornwall, the Festival Fires, call’d Bonfires, are kindled on the Eve of St. John the Baptist, and St. Peter’s Day, and Midsummer is thence, in the Cornish tongue, call’d Goluan, which signifies both Light, and Rejoicing. At these Fires the Cornish attend with lighted torches, tarr’d and pitch’d at the end, and make perambulations round their Fires, and go from village to village carrying  their torches before them.” 

 @go_all_in_2026
#NationalYearOfReading2026 #WilliamBorlase #Penzance
Volunteer’s Week is drawing to a close, and while Volunteer’s Week is drawing to a close, and while our 72 volunteers may be a little camera-shy, we cannot sing their praises from the rooftops highly enough!

Without them, putting it bluntly, there would be no Morrab Library. They bring the hard work, commitment, and joy to our special place.

An enormous thank you to each and every one of you!

#VolunteersWeek #Volunteering #Thankyou #SupportYourLibrary #GivingBack
With the start of Summer, our Photo Fridays theme With the start of Summer, our Photo Fridays theme for June is Holidays!

Here's the Watergate Bay Hotel near Newquay. 

Opening in 1900, the hotel was originally built in anticipation of a new railway that never happened. After serving as an RAF officers' mess in WWII, it was purchased by the Ashworth family in 1967. 

Has anyone ever stayed here?

Photo Archive Identifier: AEJ.140

#Library #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive #Newquay #Cornwall #hotel #holiday #WatergateBay #Summer #Seaside
On the 18th March, we welcomed Tom Greeves as he d On the 18th March, we welcomed Tom Greeves as he delivered a fascinating talk about Dartmoor poet and playwright, Mark Beeson.

You can find the talk recording on our link in bio.

#Library #lecture #librarytalk
#books #dartmoor #MarkBeeson
During Pride Month, we welcome Dr. Paul Taylor-McC During Pride Month, we welcome Dr. Paul Taylor-McCartney to discuss his new book 'Cornwall Uncharted: Mapping Cornwall’s Queer History of Concealment, Culture and Creativity', and the research journey behind it. 

In conversation with Gareth D. L. Rees, Paul explores how Cornwall’s towns, coves, chapels, studios and lanes shaped the ways queer lives could be lived, hidden and expressed across four centuries.

Enter the ballot to apply for tickets, link in bio.

#Librarytalk #QueerCornwall #CornishHistory #LibraryEvents
The prizes for our Summer Fair raffle on 20th June The prizes for our Summer Fair raffle on 20th June are brilliant, with first prize being this beautiful print from local artist and member, @sarahbellart_pz , who has generously donated this framed hand-drawn print of Penzance - you can even spot the library on it! 

Our friends at @penleeparktheatre have donated tickets to one of their shows, and @barton_books are supporting us again with a prize. There is also a very generous voucher donated by the beautiful @circa21pz shop in Market Jew Street, and with tickets only £1 a strip, it’s definitely worth joining us to enter the raffle alone! 

We hope to see you there.
#SummerFair #LovePenzance #SupportYourLibrary #SupportLocal
There's a new exhibition in our display case on th There's a new exhibition in our display case on the first floor. 

'Notable Appellations' showcases famous signatures from the archives collections, and features letters from #Wordsworth, #CharlotteBronte, #Shackleton, #Gladstone and more. 

Drop in when you can to come and have a look. You can also read our blog about the display through the link in bio.

#LibraryExhibition #LovePenzance #HistoricCollections #ExploreYourArchive #Autographs
A little bit of nautical terminology for our final A little bit of nautical terminology for our final Photo Friday of May.

‘Tucking a pilchard seine’ was when an exceptionally large catch was netted. The "tucker" was a smaller net used to keep the bulk of the catch in the main net (centre of picture) whilst the rest of the catch was carted away. This was reputedly one of the biggest "landings" recorded in this area, in the 1920s.

Photo Archive Identifier: FISH 8.007

#Library #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive #fishing #Cornwall #nautical #pilchard
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