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On a more local level, a regular contributor was local historian and academic Mr F S Blight (also a
Plymouth headmaster). His presentations included Hail & Farewell to Devonport 1951, Popular Art in Plymouth 1953, Stoke & Morice Town 1951, and Captain Tobias Furneaux 1952. All these talks
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The theatre was relaunched in 2016 and opened in 2017. This was made possible through a collaboration with the local
Barbican Theatre, a Social Enterprise Investment Fund grant and loan from
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Plymouth Institute, it was soon renamed the Plymouth Institution. The first meetings took place in Catherine Street and later Frankfort Street Art Gallery.
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