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
Video Presentation – Saga of the High Cross
For its November ZoomTalk, Truro Civic Society has invited Cornwall’s leading expert on Cornish Crosses to speak about his experience of repairing Truro’s High...
November 20, 2021
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
The Truro List – please comment
Following the successful introduction of the Truro & Kenwyn Neighbourhood Plan, and the previously successful process to develop a Truro Conservation Area Management...
February 2, 2018
Idea for a Flourishing Foyer
In about 1982 I enquired about hiring Truro City Hall to put on a couple of rock bands. I was told that, although I...
February 1, 2016
TRURO UNDER THREAT FROM WRECKERS BALL
The Cornish Buildings Group and Truro Civic Society have joined forces to raise concerns about historic buildings in Truro. Paul Holden, Chairman of the...
February 5, 2015
Last look at our Police Station
The Police Station is (now was) an important part of Truro’s architectural heritage and, as such. deserved to be remembered properly. The Civic Society therefore commissioned...
November 7, 2014
Green Spaces and Land Use
A Personal View By Michael Burgess. Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of...
January 1, 2014
Lower Standards up Highertown!
What’s in a name – Taylor Wimpey dunnaw! Do they care? Outrage is smouldering at the sudden appearance of hoardings in Highertown proclaiming the...
October 13, 2013
Our objections to Tolgarrick Farm
Chief Planning Officer Cornwall Council Fordh Treyew Truro TR1 3AY Kernow 7th October 2012 Tolgarrick Farm, Truro – PA12/07283 Dear Sir, ...
October 8, 2012
John Crowther Remembered
‘I thought I was the finest architect since Corbusier’ In the 1930s John Henry Crowther was an architect working for Yorkshire County Council. He...
September 17, 2012
How do the leats work?
The leat system in Truro starts at Waterfall Gardens just off St George’s Road, and is extracted from the river Kenwyn, but until the...
June 12, 2012
A visit to the Chantry Garden
When Haley moved into the Chantry flat in August 2009 , she could see a garden becoming established . The land owned by the Chapter...
May 2, 2012
