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Funding Boost Brings Hayle Museum a Step Closer

  

We are delighted to announce that we have received support from the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) through their Heritage Revival programme. The funding will enable us to appoint a design team and specialist consultants, to help to turn our vision for a new museum for Hayle into detailed plans and a reality!

John Harvey House during Harvey & Co.’s 19th century heyday. A foundry furnace chimney can be seen behind the building’s original cupola. The rare Z Class, timber construction viaduct, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, can be seen to the right.

The funding will enable the Trust to appoint a professional design team and specialist consultants. The project represents the final stage in the redevelopment of the Grade II* Listed John Harvey House, once the company office building for Harvey’s Foundry.

John Harvey House in the mid-2oth century, when it was occupied by engineering firm Slades.

Following years of investment to secure the historic building, this latest phase will focus on creating a brand new museum for Hayle, exploring the town’s story from prehistory through to the present day.

The building was home to Hayle’s much-loved Meadery, Excalibur’s, ran by armourer Terry English and open between 1988 and 1996.
The building has been home to Hayle Heritage Centre since 2013.