Passmore Edwards

Tickets

Free £0

Location

Kresen Kernow, Redruth

Dates

Tue 12th September, 2023 — Sat 7th October, 2023
This event has already happened
9:30 am |
Open during our usual opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday 9.30am - 4pm

About this event

Celebrating John Passmore Edwards, a new pop-up exhibition at Kresen Kernow!

Join us in September for a new pop-up exhibition celebrating the life and work of John Passmore Edwards, 1823-2023!

24 March 2023 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Passmore Edwards, Cornwall’s most generous philanthropist. Born in Blackwater, and educated at the local Dame School, he said that from an early age he had an ambition to be useful, an ambition that was to remain with him throughout his life. The name Passmore Edwards is engraved upon twenty granite stepping stones stretching across Cornwall, the twenty public buildings funded as a direct result of his bequests. There were a total of seventy one buildings across the south of the country, testament of that ambition, and the life he lived.

He lived, he said, “laborious days”, both to become probably the most successful newspaper owner of his time and in helping those that he said earned him his wealth through printing, distributing and buying his newspapers, the working classes.

The exhibition is on during our usual opening times.

Contact

01209 614 430 | https://kresenkernow.org/event/celebrating-john-passmore-edwards/

Accessibility

Details

Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels and automatic main entrance doors. Accessible toilets are available on both floors, with a fully-equipped Changing Places toilet also available on the ground floor. Separate baby changing facilities are also available on the ground floor. If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building. If you are arriving on foot or wheels, from Redruth town centre, the closest entrance is at the end of the public path which runs through the old brewery site, from Chapel Street to Kresen Kernow.

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