Bill Stickers and the Drummer
Yesterday I came across a group of people sticking a number of paper sheets with many messages, all in support of a single cause – one with which I am in sympathy – all...
Category: Reports and Opinion
Decay and delay at Moorfield deliberate?
We dash into the Christmas season and hope for the economic best for Truro, for trade to keep all those shops open and tills ringing, as the secretaries, clerks and receptionists plan their lunchtime...
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. For over 30 years, this self-employed window cleaner has quietly...
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 and his brothers are joined by Doc Holliday. The gunfight...
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
1988 Floods-Recollections & Reflections
The History of Flooding in Truro: A Personal and Collective Journey by Luci Isaacson
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 Ansari. We were presented with proposals to sell Old County...
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 Town Centre. The architect was the late John Taylor. The...
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 housebuilding companies in Europe – with a pre-tax profit of...
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, and former seafaring Truronian, who served Captain Peter Mortensen (Peter...
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 doors remain, to convey this. The whole structure has a...
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 remove all this paraphernalia from Boscawen Street, and to remove...
Time for businesses to get a grip. This will not do.
A snapshot of Old Bridge Street rubbish – this car park brings poeople into the town centre – its on sat navs, is flat and convei9ent and pay-on-exit. Across St Mary’s Bridge is the...
All Power to Landscape
Why is the Mayor standing in a field screaming ‘TOLGARRICK! HINTERLAND!’? With all this walking around, and with a summer remarkably free of pollutants – no vapour trails across the dawn sky; no rumbling...
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 by the Planning Authority to accept plans for the former...
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
Report September 2017
15/16 St Clement Street I hesitate to say anything but there’s a mini-digger, a pile of aggregate and a man with a theodolite on the 15/16 site. After all this time we may be...
Boscawen Street Still Thriving
I was once asked to visit a widow who was anxious about a letter from the Dept. of Revs & Bens (DRAB!) about her Council Tax. She was determined to take possession of her...
What’s happening in Truro?
April 2017 Pydar Street News is that the deal to secure the whole of the site occupied by Carrick DC is nearing completion. This should then trigger the debate about what’s to be done....
Current Issues in Truro
Chairman’s Report The winter has brought a difficult set of issues forward to preoccupy us as homeless people, many with mental health problems, addictions and habits, have made their presence very visibly known. There...