In Queen Street, Penzance.
Salvation Army Citadel, Queen Street
Built 1912, and opened by the Colliery owner, and MP for St Ives Constituency from 1906, Sir Clifford Cory.
His family came from Devon;
[another unrelated Cory was John Cory from Cornwall, and he established the great coaster fleet of John Cory and Sons.]
They both had chosen Wales as their home and place of business.
William Booth was born 1828 in Nottingham; in 1844 he became a Methodist Connexion minister,
his London mission developed into The Salvation Army, the name he forged in 1878.
He acquired the name of General Booth.
He visited Penzance to lay the foundation of the meeting hall of the Penzance Corps in 1882,
and later decided to journey the country from end to end, in 1904.
Without publicity, he set off from Penzance Station to ensure that he started at Land's End.
I have an immense admiration for the untiring dedication and work that is put in by The Salvation Army.
Raymond Forward
