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27 - Wellington Terrace School

Former school buildings, such as Wellington Terrace School, were requisitioned as military hospitals. Children continued to be taught in other places, including the Friend’s Meeting House in New Street. The foundation stone for the school was laid by Miss Anna Maria Fox of Penjerrick on 22nd June 1897.

The Poly in the time of Howard Spring

When Howard Spring joined the RCPS in 1940, it was a Society of 217 members. The Church Street building was owned by the Society, but parts of it were sub-let. There was a Library and the Falmouth Museum was housed in the gallery above the Large Hall and in the Chellew Room.  A caretaker was employed. 

Elsewhere in Falmouth the Society ran a Meteorological Observatory. The focus of the Society as reflected in the Annual Reports of the 1940's was Cornwall wide, not only Falmouth, with lectures, visits, an essay competition, weather reporting, a library and museum.

Read about Howard Spring's involvement with The Poly here.

John Burton

John Burton (1839-1907) was born on 10 November at Lostwithiel. At the age of 22 he left home and came to Falmouth where he founded the world-famous Old Curiosity Shop at 27 Market Street (now Boots opticians and hearingcare). H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) made some purchases by commission, being unable to ‘call upon him’, during his visit to Falmouth in 1887. Always the entrepreneur, he offered £500 for Smeaton’s Lighthouse when it was replaced by the new Eddystone Lighthouse. His bid was unsuccessful, and the lighthouse was given to Plymouth on the condition that the town paid the cost of removing it and re-erecting it on the Hoe, where it stands to this day.

Bakehouse Yard, off the south side of Webber Street

Bakehouse Yard, part of the 1934 programme of Clearance Orders

Falmouth Street Directories

Early Congregational Churches

The first Congregational Church in Falmouth was built on the High Street in 1662. This became a town hall when a new building was constructed on Prince Street.

Mission Church, Killigrew Street

The Moor, Wesleyan Church and Mission Church, ca 1900; and Mission Church ca 1910

Prince Street ca 1950s, now Prince Street Gardens/High Street in 2021

Post Office Yard, off Market Street

Behind WH Smith, separated from what was then Woolworth's flat roofed building (now Wilko) by Fountain Ope. Included in the Clearance programme of 1957.

Mill Row, off Swanpool Street

Note the Friends' Meeting House at the far end of the Row. Included in the Clearance programme, November 1933.

Later Congregational Church

In 1853, a new church was built on High Street, next door to the site of the first church.

Building refurbishment at the bottom of High Street, ca 1920