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...
Category: Architecture
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...
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 nestles against Truro City Hall and has running within its...
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 magazines, newspapers and the radio. When Cornwall really was cut...
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 Cross after it was the victim of a bizarre road...
Safeguarding the future of Truro City Centre
Mike and Trish Hawes, principals of Mei Loci, an experienced team of landscape architects based in Truro with an international practice will be giving the monthly Truro Civic Society ‘ZoomTalk’ on Wednesday 20th October...
St Mary’s Churchyard is full of bones of contention – it is part of our parish; we should look after it.
A good number of years ago a Mayor of Truro, Mrs Valerie Bennett, developed an acute civic anxiety about the condition of the St Mary’s Church Yard wall which runs adjacent to Kenwyn Hill....
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 Plan, there is now the opportunity for Truro to compile...
Idea for a Flourishing Foyer
In about 1982 I enquired about hiring Truro City Hall to put on a couple of rock bands. I was told that, although I only wanted it for three hours, I would have to...
TRURO UNDER THREAT FROM WRECKERS BALL
The Cornish Buildings Group and Truro Civic Society have joined forces to raise concerns about historic buildings in Truro. Paul Holden, Chairman of the Cornish Buildings Group, said ‘Both groups are concerned about the...
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 photographer, John Jacobs, to record it for posterity (even as...
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 Exeter Medical School based here in Truro have carried out...
Lower Standards up Highertown!
What’s in a name – Taylor Wimpey dunnaw! Do they care? Outrage is smouldering at the sudden appearance of hoardings in Highertown proclaiming the arrival of ‘Woodleigh Grange’ – Taylor Wimpey’s ‘brand’ name for...
Our objections to Tolgarrick Farm
Chief Planning Officer Cornwall Council Fordh Treyew Truro TR1 3AY Kernow 7th October 2012 Tolgarrick Farm, Truro – PA12/07283 Dear Sir, I am writing on behalf of Truro Civic Society to...
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 lived in a Council House at Dewsbury with his wife...
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 early 2000’s it was extracted by the use of a...
A visit to the Chantry Garden
When Haley moved into the Chantry flat in August 2009 , she could see a garden becoming established . The land owned by the Chapter of Truro Cathedral had seriously been overgrown for many years,...