The society's first premises was a house in North Parade, Penzance and in 1853 the Borough of Penzance put forward plans for a new public building on the west side of Penzance. It was planned to have the Borough offices, county court and police station in the east wing, the two floors of the west wing housing the RGSC's museum and a public hall between the two run by a public company. The building, known as
St John's Hall, was opened in 1867 and still exists although, in July 2016, the west wing was occupied by the new Penzance library.[7] In 2023 the RGSC's base was at
King Edward Mine, near
Camborne,[8] although meetings and lectures were usually held at
Camborne School of Mines and other facilities on the
Penryn Campus, and via
Zoom.[9]
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abTodd, A C (1964). "The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall". In K F G Hosking & G. J. Shrimpton (ed.). Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon. Penzance: Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. p. 1.
^K F G Hosking & G J Shrimpton, ed. (1964). "The William Bolitho Gold Medal". Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon.
Penzance: Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. pp. iv.
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^"Royal Geological Society Of Cornwall. Annual Meeting". The Cornishman. No. 69. 6 November 1879. p. 4.