Truro Old Cornwall Society has released its programme of events for 2023/24.  

On September 12, Roger Radcliffe’s talk Sets and Spells - part 2 will cover Trevellas Aerodrome to St Agnes Harbour, including a snippet of Major Gill’s film of 1920s tin streaming.  

October 10 will see the screening of Jane Darke’s The Wrecking Season, a film about the life of the late playwright Nick Darke. 

Adrian Wilton will discuss Churchill’s Secret Army on November 14 – the secretly mobilised forces which would have become the resistance in the event of a German invasion in the Second World War.  

Barry West will introduce some Christmas cheer on December 12 with his talk on Charles Dickens in Cornwall, including the possible inspiration for the character of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol.  

The first talk of the New Year is scheduled for January 9: Sheila Richardson on her life in Boscawen Row, alongside the OCS’s annual general meeting. 

Next, Cornish raconteur Trevor Smitheram will talk about Cornish dialect, and recount tales in it, on February 13. www.cornishtrevor.org 

Leading landscape archaeologist Peter Herring will shine a light on Cornwall’s historic landscape on March 12, and John Woodward will tell the story of the end of British rule in Ghana in A Cornish Camp: Gold Mine 1946 on April 9.  

All events include a raffle and will take place at 7.30pm at St George’s Church Hall in St George’s Road. Members free, non-members £2.50. For further information, contact Bert Biscoe on 01872 242293. 

The society will also take part in Gorsedh Kernow in Padstow, on Saturday, September 2 at 2pm.