Compton Castle
The Compton Castle on the River Dart In the 1980s, when there was a cavalier energy abroad in Truro, John Cockle, City Councillor, broadcaster,...
January 25, 2024
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
Sympathetic Development?
The Daniell Arms (now known as The Thomas Daniell) is a listed building. It was originally two mirror-image houses, and the two arched front...
December 18, 2023
All change at Truro Civic Society
Truro Civic Society is to begin holding regular meetings again. They will feature talks about topics of both general and, specifically, Truro interest. The...
October 9, 2023
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...
May 8, 2023
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...
March 3, 2023
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?...
February 26, 2023
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
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
MR H KICKS OPEN A DOOR; A THOUGHT MARCHES IN!
Looking after our farms so our farmers can look after us. A reflection on the emerging Green Infrastructure Strategy and Vision. In 2009 a...
May 30, 2022
Boscawen Street-neither busy nor beautiful now
The time has come – if it has not long passed – when someone must clearly say ‘Enough is enough!’ It is time to...
February 21, 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
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
Planning and Heritage in Truro – Civic Society Zoom talk
Truro Civic Society will be presenting a short series of talks about matters of interest and concern relating to design, heritage management, conservation, planning...
September 3, 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
Time for businesses to get a grip. This will not do.
A snapshot of Old Bridge Street rubbish – this car park brings poeople into the town centre – its on sat navs, is flat...
June 16, 2021
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...
October 26, 2020