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
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
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
Time to Clock On Again
To the Freehold owner of The Clock House, Lemon Quay, Truro Dear Landlord, It was a moment of relieved happiness when it was decided...
July 20, 2020
A visit to Carne’s Ope
With the agreement of the ‘site manager’, and with the assistance of the ever-helpful staff of Uneeka, I visited Carne’s Ope. With me was...
November 13, 2018
The Truro List – please comment
Following the successful introduction of the Truro & Kenwyn Neighbourhood Plan, and the previously successful process to develop a Truro Conservation Area Management...
February 2, 2018
Truro is dead at night ‘because no one actually lives in the city centre anymore’
Bert Biscoe opens the debate about the opportunities available to us at the old Carrick site. Read more Here
November 3, 2017
THE STORY OF TRURO WATER
By Bert Biscoe They say, in the gloomier, more prosaic corridors that we are never more than six feet away from a rat! Living...
January 9, 2017
Truro & Global Warming – a solution?
THE MISSING ELEPHANT A personal view by Michael Burgess On Wednesday 7 January 2015 Roger Gazzard, Clerk to Truro City Council gave a...
January 24, 2015
Truro Parking and Traffic
There is a growing conflict emerging between commuters and residents over parking, which is giving rise to a growing number of enquiries for Residents Parking...
April 13, 2014
Green Spaces and Land Use
A Personal View By Michael Burgess. Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of...
January 1, 2014
Coosebean Cycle Path Opens
Truro is famous and greatly valued for its inter-relationship with the natural world and its rural setting. Nowhere in the town is this more...
June 22, 2013
