[4] The suffragette, Helen Beedy, gave a speech advocating voting rights for women at a public meeting in the building in December 1874.

[4] In the early 20th century civic leaders decided to make the market hall at the rear of the complex available for public use.

[6][12] In September 2008 the venue put on a re-working of the play, The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe, entitled Barabas, which featured a Cornish, national and international cast.

[14] Christmas shows, directed by locally based director and producer, Simon Harvey, included Dick Whittington and his Mousehole Cat!

[15] A major programme of refurbishment works, undertaken by Kier Group at a cost of £20 million to a design by Burrell Foley Fischer, began in June 2018.