was conferred upon:-
Alderman W. J. Bazeley, MP
Howell Mabbott, Esq., JP
Alderman B. C. Matthews
Alderman George Poole
J. H. Tonking, Esq., JP
The five Freemen of Penzance, 1932
St John’s Hall Penzance, 19th April 1932
An extract from an essay by Jack Francis of Market Jew Street, aged 10:-
"The ceremony began with excellent music from the orchestra conducted by Mr Walter Barnes, then while we were listening to the music we were startled by a loud ring of a bell and on looking up we saw the Town Crier shouting out that the meeting was going to start."
97 students, from 8 schools in the Borough, submitted essays for a competition in connection with the above ceremony.
One of the essays, by L.W. Ladner from Mousehole, can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Walter Barnes and some members of the Penzance Orchestral Society played at the Freemen Ceromony in Penzance in 1932.
Walter Barnes Conductor portrait by Stanhope Forbes.
The History of the Penzance Orchestral Society