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Truro, Cornwall
Truro maps
Historic maps of Truro and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Truro maps
Historic map of Truro
Illustrated Victorian map of Cornwall
Historic Map of any Truro postcode
Truro books
Displaying 3 of 12 books about Truro and the local area. View all Truro books
Cornwall County Memories
Paperback
rrp £15
£12
Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
Paperback
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£11.20
Helston Photographic Memories
Paperback
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£10.40
8 Truro photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Truro
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memories of Truro
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It's good that Lemon Street has remained unchanged from looking at older pictures.
Although now all the houses are offices.
Shared on 24 January 2007
Cornwall memories
My gran ran the post office from before I was born, her name was Mrs Pooley. When she retired my Uncle Eric and his wife Dorothy took it over until they too retired. I visited the village about four years ago when I found that the post office had been renovated into a private dwelling. The owners of the property very... [more]
Shared on 21 January 2009
I was evacuated in 1939 to Devoran, and was billeted with a family by the name of Eddy, my three sisters and myself. We were only there for about two months before we were all taken down with scabies, we all went off tp Perranporth isolation ward, we were all kept in hospital untill we were better, and then went back... [more]
Shared on 16 January 2009
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... [more]
Shared on 06 October 2008
My wife and I visited St Day in September 13th 2004 to find where my Greatgrandparents lived. We found the house where GreatGrandmother died - 24 Scorrier Street. After searching a lot of St Day for anyone who might have know of either of them, we did find a couple, the gent was a nephew of a lady that was a... [more]
Shared on 28 January 2007
My brother Bryan and I were evacuated to St. Day in 1940 and I spent three happy years there before reluctantly returning to London in 1943. We lived with Mr. and Mrs. Batty who ran a Hardware Shop on the corner of Fore Street. Mr Batty was, during my stay, Chairman of the Camborne and Redruth Urban District Council, We attended... [more]
Shared on 16 July 2006
In the 1840's Magors and Menadues migrated from Mithian to South Australia, and I am the product of the marriages between the families.
If anyone would like to correspond with me on this page I have more details and would love to learn new ones.
I live in Adelaide South Australia and am visiting Mithian in May 2007 to... [more]
Shared on 20 April 2007
Extracts From Truro & Cornwall books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Truro, inspired by Frith photos.
Truro's great glory is its cathedral, which soars sublimely over the roofs. Though it gives the impression of great antiquity, it was built by J L Pearson in the decades between 1880 and 1909 in the Early English style. The central tower rises 250 feet into the sky, and was conceived as a memorial to Queen Victoria.
This is an extract from Cornwall Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
This graceful thoroughfare of plain, unadorned granite-faced houses was built in 1795, and was considered the wonder of Cornwall. From its junction with Boscawen Street, it sweeps sedately up to the Lander Monument, a Doric column erected to the memory of the two Truro brothers who traced the source of the Niger in 1827.
This is an extract from Cornwall Memories.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
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... [more]
This is an extract from Cornwall County Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
