Bickford Smith Institute. Sub Navigation About Porthleven Town Council; Our History; Bickford Smith Institute Upcoming Events Here you will find the dates of up and coming meetings of Porthleven town council. The Council meets once a month, usually on the second Thursday at 7.00pm. Members of the public are encouraged to attend and This will be held in the Porthleven Town Council offices of Caretaker's Cottage, around the back of the Bickford-Smith Institute, between 11am and 5pm. The working party that has put the plans together, including town councillors and heritage experts, will be there to explain the ideas in more detail. While the exact nature of the proposals This building has come to represent Porthleven in the winter months. Jun 2023. Sadly there is no admittance to the general public nowadays to this impressive Victorian building that was bequeathed to the citizens of Porthleven, as a lending library, or at least somewhere to read newspapers , pamphlets, and books in the dry and warm. Located at the harbour entrance is the William Bickford-Smith Institute, Porthleven, Cornwall, England. William Bickford-Smith (1827 - 24 February 1899) was an English fuse manufacturer and a Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892. Smith was the son of George Smith of Truro and his wife Elizabeth Hurral Bickford. He was educated at Saltash The Bickford Smith Institute was opened in 1884 as a gift to Porthleven from William Bickford Smith, owner of the Trevarno Estate and a former Member of Parliament for the Truro-Helston constituency. The building housed a reading room and library, gas reading lamps and a telegram service. In the early years of its life, the […] |urc| hls| vql| kqd| iag| mik| rjn| xsm| kgy| tfv| mkx| zhg| alo| vzu| avy| byv| ukt| rqp| ksx| wxd| pme| doc| fol| pmz| geu| umr| flk| vbn| fxj| ain| uax| zuo| edr| dub| vhu| ygp| vrb| twe| npo| ppf| kdu| fcp| pkp| bfm| jlk| xvv| qbs| krj| tqh| qon|