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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...

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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...

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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?...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...