Sunny Corner History
Sunny Corner, sited on the banks of Truro River, just beyond Truro Cricket Club, has an interesting and potted history. The first mention of...
January 10, 2024
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
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
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
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
THE STORY OF TRURO WATER
By Bert Biscoe They say, in the gloomier, more prosaic corridors that we are never more than six feet away from a rat! Living...
January 9, 2017
History of the Civic Society (part 1)
‘There is no surer way of determining that a town will survive unspoiled than the corporate determination of its citizens that it shall’ –...
March 27, 2013
Truro Viewpoints
Recently the Princes Foundation urged the groups working on the draft Neighbourhood Plan to identify views which say ‘this is Truro’. There is one...
November 8, 2012
Cap’n Swift – rumour or wraith? Or is it art?!!
When Truro’s sea trade was at its height and Sir Charles Lemon’s Quay was a hub of activity the opes were the ways used...
April 28, 2012
Famous sons – Richard Lander
Richard Lemon Lander was the son of a Truro innkeeper, born in the Daniell Arms. His explorations began as an assistant to the Scottish...
April 27, 2012
History of Truro
By the start of the 14th century Truro was an important port, thanks firstly to its inland location away from invaders and its prosperity from...
December 1, 2011
