Obelisk nearly lost
BUT NOW RESTORED TO ITS PROPER PLACE ‘Thanks to Barry West, and to Truro City Council for making this restoration happen. Having been rescued by Mr Davey and kept safe at Dairylands, I am...
Category: History
The sad demise of the Compton Castle
By Tony Brett The Paddle Steamer Compton Castle was the longest serving paddlesteamer on the River Dart operating from 1914 to 1962. There were four paddle steamers named after castles working on the River...
1988 Floods-Recollections & Reflections
The History of Flooding in Truro: A Personal and Collective Journey by Luci Isaacson
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 it was in 1846 when it was the venue for...
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 (with its strong inference of coastal sea trade between Dorset...
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 the Truro area. She was educated at St Mary’s School,...
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 the past thirty years or so the town has seen...
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....
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 Martin Woodley and Nick Cahill, a planning officer and conservation...
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 as we do in Truro between three rivers (the Allen,...
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’ – Sir Alec Clifton Taylor In 1962 Truro awoke to find...
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 I will rediscover again and again, from 1816. It appears...
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 by most stevedores and seamen to reach the impatient arrivals...
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 explorer Hugh Clapperton on an expedition to Western Africa in...
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 the fishing industry, but also to its new role as...