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Truro books (9 available)
- 64 photos on Truro appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Truro
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Truro and Cornwall
Truro memories
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Unchanged
It's good that Lemon Street has remained unchanged from looking at older pictures.
Although now all the houses are offices.
Contributed by A J
Cornwall memories
Unchanged
It's good that Lemon Street has remained unchanged from looking at older pictures.
Although now all the houses are offices.
A memory of Truro contributed by A J
damn good lodgings
go to blacksmiths cottage for fine fayre
A memory of Mylor contributed by susan petrozzi
St Day evacuee - lost memories
I too was one of the London evacuees taken to St Day school to be selected by a villager; Miss Murton a shop owner took me into her home.
Miss Murton gave up her shop with the rationing and coupon counting.
Can anyone tell me, please, where we came from in London at the time of evacuation for I have no memory before the day I was taken into Miss Murton's home? I can remember no other children either.
I do remember Miss Batty's shop and a St Day family, the Lanyons.
A few years ago I went back to St Day and Miss Murton's shop seemed unlived in but still had her name over the shop. I was lucky for ...read more here
A memory of St Day contributed by Joan Barnard
Extracts From Truro & Cornwall books
Now known as Truro School, the college was founded on the hill overlooking the city 10 years before this photograph was taken, ‘affording a thorough English education at a moderate cost’ for up to 120 boarders. It boasted five classrooms, a dining hall, dormitories, a sick room and a chemical laboratory. See how the river comes right up to the quays in the heart of the city - all of this was later covered over to become a car park.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
The ferry boats, one of which could take a horse and cart, were rowed across to Malpas Passage, a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers, both long branches of the Fal estuary. When the tide was low, pleasure steamers from Falmouth landed their passengers here for Truro.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
The clock tower on the far side of the bridge belonged to an important tin smelting works which operated throughout most of the 18th and 19th centuries before closing in 1891. The tin ore was brought from the local mines, and the finished ingots of ‘white tin’ were shipped from Truro.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
The little hamlet of Calenick lies a short distance south of Truro, in a valley bottom on the old road to Falmouth. Here beside the old lane is one of the few thatched cottages.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
The bustling centre of Truro is paved with granite setts, and running water flows in the gutters. Barclays Bank dominates the west end, while Lemon Street can be seen emerging on the extreme left. In the centre of it all a policeman on point duty waits for traffic to direct. Behind him, there is a Pickfords horse-drawn removal wagon.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".