Obelisk nearly lost
BUT NOW RESTORED TO ITS PROPER PLACE ‘Thanks to Barry West, and to Truro City Council for making this restoration happen. Having been rescued...
October 8, 2025
Richard Argall – Truro’s Tree Man
A Window into Truro’s Greener Future Meet Richard Argall — a man with a squeegee in one hand and a sapling in the other....
September 10, 2025
Scullduggery roolz at Newham?
‘They’re gonna do what they wanna do because that’s what they do!’ ‘Tombstone, Arizona. 1881, The Clantons and others ride into town. Wyatt Earp...
July 21, 2025
The sad demise of the Compton Castle
By Tony Brett The Paddle Steamer Compton Castle was the longest serving paddlesteamer on the River Dart operating from 1914 to 1962. There were...
July 14, 2025
Truro Civic Society Awards
On Friday 21st March in the Methodist Church The following people received Civic Awards For their their dedication and service to the City of...
February 24, 2025
Housing Bombshell
At the start of the year Cornwall Council had a Local Plan and a Five Year Land Supply. These are important documents which set...
January 20, 2025
THE VIEW FROM THE RETAIL TRENCHES
John Roach, well known retailer and landlord in Truro gives us his views on the retail trade in the city from the point of view of the small independent retailer
December 27, 2024
1988 Floods-Recollections & Reflections
The History of Flooding in Truro: A Personal and Collective Journey by Luci Isaacson
September 11, 2024
Old County Hall
Some years ago, I was lucky enough to be a joint remember representing an amalgamated ward in Truro on Cornwall Council alongside Mrs Doris...
August 7, 2024
SOMETHING’S GOT TO BE DONE WITH THE MOORFIELD CAR PARK
The Moorfield multi-storey car park was built in the early 1970s. It is part of a major re-engineering of traffic management in Truro...
July 22, 2024
Persimmon “can’t afford it”.
On the ferris wheel of campaigning issues come around – so here’s a question! Persimmon Homes is one of the biggest and most prosperous...
July 19, 2024
Compton Castle
The Compton Castle on the River Dart In the 1980s, when there was a cavalier energy abroad in Truro, John Cockle, City Councillor, broadcaster,...
January 25, 2024
Sunny Corner History
Sunny Corner, sited on the banks of Truro River, just beyond Truro Cricket Club, has an interesting and potted history. The first mention of...
January 10, 2024
Sympathetic Development?
The Daniell Arms (now known as The Thomas Daniell) is a listed building. It was originally two mirror-image houses, and the two arched front...
December 18, 2023
Market Inn at Risk?
The Market Inn (locally known as Ma Shaw’s, after a particularly redoubtable C20th landlady) is a particularly striking quayside pub at Back Quay. It...
March 3, 2023
The Bins Revisited
Just who is responsible for the commercial waste bins which you will see all over Truro. Is it the Council? Or is it Biffa?...
February 26, 2023
Time travel back to 1959
Some of you might remember 1959. When there was no social media. When the word “celebrity” was unknown. When we got our news from...
July 13, 2022
Don’t let’s forget
When you consider the archaeology of Tregurra, with its neolithic causewayed enclosure (now ‘preserved’ beneath the Recycling Centre) and soils, the flint knapping pit...
June 8, 2022
Boscawen Street-neither busy nor beautiful now
The time has come – if it has not long passed – when someone must clearly say ‘Enough is enough!’ It is time to...
February 21, 2022
Architect Philip Sambell
When Sue Coney tells you where she was born she uses the native pronunciation – ‘Eadless’. Most of her entirely Cornish family are from...
February 10, 2022
