THE housing for an historic barometer in Falmouth which was stolen around 50 years ago is to be moved as close to its original position as possible after planning permission was granted to move it.
Falmouth Civic Society had applied to Cornwall Council to move the granite housing in preparation for a replica of the original barometer to be put in place. Cornwall Council's planning officer gave the application the go-ahead on Friday.
The original barometer designed by Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy was installed by the RNLI on the old Custom House on Arwenack Street, now The Stable, on February 6, 1868.
The publicly funded FitzRoy Barometer was issued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to coincide with the arrival of Falmouth’s first lifeboat ‘The City of Gloucester’