PASSMORE EDWARDS INSTITUTE |
HAYLE'S VILLAGE HALL |
13-15 Hayle Terrace, Hayle, TR27 4BU |
Registered Charity #268429 |
NEWS
| • | Full History | |
| • | Constitution | |
| • | Trustees | |
| • | Contact Us | |
| • | Room Hire | |
| • | 10-Year Plan | |
| • | Links | |
| • | Map | |
| • | Historical Documents | |
| • | Gallery | |
| • | Donate |
Foundation Stones Repainted |
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| It was clearly time to restore the inscriptions on the foundation stones as they were barely readable. You can see the before and after results below. | ||||||
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Imaginary Journeys: The Travel Agencies, now at PEI |
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| WILDWORKS is proud to be one of the first companies commissioned through an exciting new arts programme called FEAST to lead an ambitious Arts in the Community project in seven market towns across Cornwall:
It's February... and it's raining and cold and everyone is thinking about fleeing to sunnier climes but we've checked our bank accounts and we spent too much at Christmas so looks like we're staying at home after all. Are we down hearted? No, we are not because Cornwall's own internationally renowned theatre company WILDWORKS have created an ambitious and exciting new project called Imaginary Journeys. So it doesn't matter if you are young, old, or in between just as long as you are a brave 'traveller' willing to let WILDWORKS artists take you on flights of fancy, into the unknown where you will explore the past, the present and the future. It's not only Doctor Who who gets to time travel and as Mercedes Kemp project manager says 'We have teams of artists working across Cornwall, creating Travel Agencies of the Imagination. We want to gather memories, hopes and dreams for the future, and create beautiful installations that will connect with people and their pride of place.' |
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| Opening times: February, Monday 9th, 1pm-5pm, Tuesday 10th, 1pm-5pm, Wed 11th,11am-1:30pm & 6:30-8pm, Friday 13th, 4pm-7pm and Sat 14th, 11am-4pm. | ||||||
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| Building manager, Esme Jelbert and daughter of Denis Hollow, opens the Imaginary Journeys project. | ||||||
Annual General Meeting, January 26th, 2009at 6-30pm |
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| Our AGM will be held at the Institute on Monday, 26 January 2009 at 6-30pm and all local residents are welcomed and encouraged to attend. There will be reports from the Chairman and treasurer, followed by election of trustees for 2009/10. If you would like to be a trustee please contact the Secretary as soon as possible. | ||||||
Christmas Bazaar Raises over £500 |
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| There was lots of fun and plenty of bargains for young and old alike at our pre-Christmas fundraiser. With over £500 going inot our construction fund, it also helps us to keep the Institute in great shape. Thanks to organisers and visitors for making this a great success. | ||||||
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18 November 2008. The Cornwall Rural Community Council has awarded us a Village Hall Grant of £2,000 to help us pay for a solid wood floor for the newly refurbished Denis Hollow Room. We hope to have the grand opening of the room before Christmas. |
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15 November 2008. Thanks to County Councillor Terry Lello we have received a Member Grant of £1,000 towards our reconstruction efforts. |
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05 October 2008. The auction was a huge success and we raised over £1,300. Thank you to those who generously made donations - and to the bidders. |
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27 August 2008. The renovation of the old billiard room, now renamed the Denis Hollow Room in honour of Denis's 60 years of caring for the building, is now under way. The billiard table has been removed, the covers removed from the windows and we are ready to install a new wooden floor and repair and redecorate the walls. With luck we will be up and running in a couple of months. We are grateful to the following organisations for grants to enable us to do this important regeneration work:
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14 August 2008. We are delighted to announce our fundraising auction being spearheaded by Building Manager Esme Jelbert. |
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| 01 August 2008. Our grant application to the CRCC Regeneration Fund was successful and we received a generous donation of £2,000 towards the refurbishment of the Billiard Room. Work should start soon as the billiard table has been removed. | ||||||
08 July 2008. The trustees of the Institute were delighted to receive a cheque for £1,000 from the Co-operative Community Fund. The money will be used to refurbish the ground floor billiard room so that it can be used for meetings, exercise and dancing. It will provide an additional room with disabled access. Without the generosity of donors like the Co-op it would be hard to provide this important resource for the community. |
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| 19 May 2008. The Annual General Meeting of the Passmore Edwards Institute will be held at 6:30 pm on Monday, 19 May, 2008. All local residents are invited to attend. | ||||||
| 25 April 2008. The trustees have authorised the scanning of the original deeds and other interesting historical documents relating to the Institute. These are now available on line. Click the Historical Documents link on the left to see more. | ||||||
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On 4th December 2007, the Institute received an offer of £34,756.50 from the Hayle Townscape Heritage Initiative towards repair and replacement of the roof. The Institute will add its own funds to enable the work, which will cost close to £60,000, to proceed. Repair of the roof will stabilise the building and provide a sound basis for further restoration work. It will secure the building for the use of the people of Hayle and the surrounding area for another one hundred years. The Institute will now proceed with a 10-year plan, in 5 phases, with the intention of fully restoring the building to its original state. We are indebted to: The Heritage Lottery Fund, The European Union and the Objective One Partnership for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, South West of England Regional Development Agency, English Heritage, Penwith District Council, Cornwall County Council, Hayle Town Council and the Guinness Trust Group. |
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Meeting & Exercise Rooms We have rooms to hire suitable for formal meetings and for groups and societies. Rooms for 6, 16, 40 and 100 participants are available as well as a kitchen and private toilets. Click here for more information |
HISTORY
The Benefactor, John Passmore Edwards
John Passmore Edwards (March 24, 1823 - 1911) was a Victorian journalist and philanthropist. He was born in Blackwater, a small village, situated between Redruth and Truro, in Cornwall, the son of a carpenter. He served as an editor of the London Echo and as a Liberal MP under Salisbury. He later sold the bulk of his share in the Echo to focus his attentions on philanthropy.
A life-long champion of the working classes, Passmore Edwards is remembered as a generous benefactor. Over the space of 14 years, 70 major buildings were established as a direct result of his bequests. These included hospitals, 11 drinking fountains, 32 marble busts, 23 libraries, schools, convalescence homes and art galleries and the Passmore Edwards Settlement.
The foundation stone of the Passmore Edwards Institute in Hayle was laid in 1893 and officially opened by Mrs. Passmore Edwards in April 1896.
The Architect, Silvanus Trevail, 1851-1903
Silvanus Trevail was born in Luxulyan, Cornwall, in October 1851 and was educated first at the village school and then at Ledrah House School, St Austell before being sent to work in London in the offices of Henry Garling, FRIBA. He returned to Cornwall in 1872 and was commissioned to design the Elementary Board School, Mount Charles, St Austell. This was the first of 35 new schools he designed in Cornwall as a result of the surge in school building following the passing of the Education Act.
In 1878 his designs were exhibited at the Exhibition of British Architecture at the Paris Exposition and at exhibitions in Sydney, where he received a medal and diploma for his design of Fowey Grammar School, and Melbourne.
In 1893 he was commissioned to design the Hayle Institute for Passmore Edwards, and over the next 7 years designed many, but not all, of the Passmore Edwards buildings in Cornwall. Other buildings he designed included a number of chapels and churches in Cornwall, several of Cornwall's most well known hotels and mansion houses at Blisland and St Ives, Cornwall, and in Dublin. In Cornwall he was well respected as a Borough Councillor, and later Mayor, in Truro and as a County Councillor, whilst his professional reputation was acknowledged by election as Fellow of the RIBA and firstly Vice President of the Society of Architects in 1896 and then President in 1901-1903.
The Building
The building is sombre and dignified, the front finished in rock-faced granite, with close chiselled dressings, and the sides are of elvan filling with granite dressings. The windows on all sides are large and uncluttered, classical and expansive in style, contrasting with the formidable Norman Arch porch with its heavily panelled outer doors and the granite balcony above. The leaded coloured glass panels in the top third of the outer doors, and those in the oak framed arch above, let in a warm, comforting light, though their simple geometric designs are decoration only.
The interior is much lighter and brighter than the outside, even on a winter’s day. There is much use of genuinely rich brown timber for the staircase and panelling up the stairs, set off by plain, plaster walls painted a pale colour.
This stone was laid by
J. Passmore Edwards Esq.
20th September 1893
This building was opened by
Mrs. J. Passmore Edwards
of London
29th April 1896
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