June 8, 2022 - No comments
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 and what was to become Truro, and in this case, the port of Tresillian), smelting pits and early medieval field systems, […]
January 6, 2022 - Add Comment
People of the river crossing Fiona is a landscape archaeologist. She is talking about what we now [...]
November 16, 2021 - Add Comment
Truro’s attractive and distinctive chimneys and stacks are disappearing. We don’t need them [...]
June 25, 2021 - Add Comment
A good number of years ago a Mayor of Truro, Mrs Valerie Bennett, developed an acute civic anxiety [...]
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November 13, 2018 - Add Comment
With the agreement of the ‘site manager’, and with the assistance of the ever-helpful staff of [...]
January 9, 2017 - Add Comment
By Bert Biscoe They say, in the gloomier, more prosaic corridors that we are never more than six [...]
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‘There is no surer way of determining that a town will survive unspoiled than the corporate [...]
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Recently the Princes Foundation urged the groups working on the draft Neighbourhood Plan to identify [...]
April 28, 2012 - 1 Comment
When Truro’s sea trade was at its height and Sir Charles Lemon’s Quay was a hub of activity the [...]
