Category: Architecture

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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...

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Last look at our Police Station

The Police Station is (now was) an important part of Truro’s architectural heritage and, as such. deserved to be remembered properly. The Civic Society therefore commissioned...

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John Crowther Remembered

‘I thought I was the finest architect since Corbusier’ In the 1930s John Henry Crowther was an architect working for Yorkshire County Council. He...

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How do the leats work?

The leat system in Truro starts at Waterfall Gardens just off St George’s Road, and is extracted from the river Kenwyn, but until the...