All change at Truro Civic Society
Truro Civic Society is to begin holding regular meetings again. They will feature talks about topics of both general and, specifically, Truro interest. The...
October 9, 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
Video Presentation – Saga of the High Cross
For its November ZoomTalk, Truro Civic Society has invited Cornwall’s leading expert on Cornish Crosses to speak about his experience of repairing Truro’s High...
November 20, 2021
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
