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24 Church St, Falmouth : 01326 319461
The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society

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Exhibitions // Coming up // Who Lived in a Place Like This? // Falmouth History Week
25 February
Saturday

Who Lived in a Place Like This? // Falmouth History Week

A week long exhibition Celebrating Falmouth’s Past and Cornish Culture in the Spring and Main Gallery.

Main Gallery:

A great selection of photographs, maps and more from the local archive collections exploring people and different aspects of life in the Falmouth area.

Falmouth History Archive: People, places and society around The Moor, Falmouth

Tom Weller: The development of Falmouth and the landowners who influenced this.

Cornwall Record Office: Stories of people from Falmouth - from a murderer to the influential Fox family.

Cornwall Family History Society: The Bull Family of Marlborough House.

Penryn Museum: Shops in Penryn through the years.

National Maritime Museum, Cornwall: The Fox family, the Cox family and Ship building families on the Bar.

Flushing History Group: People linked with Flushing including, the Trefusis family, Edward and Isaac Pellew  and Captain Dowman (Cutty Sark)

Constantine History Society: Constantine Remembers - The Home Front in World War 1

Falmouth Town Council:

The Institute of Cornish Studies: Exeter University: Life in Falmouth from mid 1950s to 1970s. From the Charles Woolf Photography Collection

 

Spring Gallery:

The History of The Poly with images from The Poly Archive selected by Michael Carver

‘Fun in Falmouth’ Children’s Art Competition finalists

Falmouth Spring Flower Show and the Falmouth families associated with it, curated by Jean Carr

Falmouth’s Victorian shopkeepers by the 10th Falmouth Guides

Plus—Share your memories of The Poly and explore the streets of Falmouth in 1880

 

 

 

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Quest for the Dragon’s Egg

Join our Knight as he sets out on a quest to obtain the ultimate Easter Egg- The Golden Egg of a Dragon! Ages 6+ ...

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National Theatre Live: Vanya (15)

Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. ...

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Cabaret with Claws

Mixing wicked humour and eclectic jazz and cabaret, interspersed with jaw-dropping circus in solo performances and...

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