Truro Civic Awards
We are pleased to invite you to nominate individuals who, in your experience, merit being considered for a Civic Award which will be awarded...
May 8, 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
The Bins Revisited
Just who is responsible for the commercial waste bins which you will see all over Truro. Is it the Council? Or is it Biffa?...
February 26, 2023
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...
July 13, 2022
Don’t let’s forget
When you consider the archaeology of Tregurra, with its neolithic causewayed enclosure (now ‘preserved’ beneath the Recycling Centre) and soils, the flint knapping pit...
June 8, 2022
MR H KICKS OPEN A DOOR; A THOUGHT MARCHES IN!
Looking after our farms so our farmers can look after us. A reflection on the emerging Green Infrastructure Strategy and Vision. In 2009 a...
May 30, 2022
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...
February 21, 2022
Architect Philip Sambell
When Sue Coney tells you where she was born she uses the native pronunciation – ‘Eadless’. Most of her entirely Cornish family are from...
February 10, 2022
Video Presentation – before Truro
People of the river crossing Fiona is a landscape archaeologist. She is talking about what we now know about Truro’s origins and evolution. In...
January 6, 2022
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...
October 6, 2021
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...
June 25, 2021
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...
June 16, 2021
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...
October 26, 2020
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
Langarth Development
27th March 2020 Dear Langarthians, I am writing from two perspective – Firstly, as the elected member for Boscawen Division, Truro, which embraces most...
April 10, 2020
Planning Issues Oct 2019
Higher Newham Farm No doubt what the two key issues are this month! Higher Newham Farm has returned to the agenda. The applicant persists...
October 25, 2019
Stranger Things
Recently, strange objects reminiscent of mystical obelisks from 2001 Space Odyssey have appeared in various places around the Truro town centre. Sadly, these are...
February 6, 2019
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
THINKING TRURRA
An ‘Ideas Exchange’ of short talks exploring the present and future for Truro presented by Truro Civic Society, in partnership with Truro City Council,...
March 28, 2018