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Secret Truro Parnell Christine

Truro has been an important port since the Middle Ages and its status as a stannary town allowing it to assay and stamp copper and tin from Cornish mines also brought prosperity to the town. Wealthy…

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Truro has been an important port since the Middle Ages and its status as a stannary town allowing it to assay and stamp copper and tin from Cornish mines also brought prosperity to the town. Wealthy families settled in Truro, benefitting from mining and other industries such as iron-smelting, potteries and tanneries and the town was given city status by Queen Victoria and the foundations laid for a new cathedral. Today it is the administrative and commercial centre for Cornwall. This book explores Truro's history beneath the surface, including personalities such as Humphrey Davy, who invented the miners' safety lamp, and his contemporaries in the cultural hotbed of 18th and 19th century Truro. The Assembly Rooms which once stood in High Cross welcomed Sarah Siddons, General Tom Thumb and regular local entertainer Joseph Emidy who was once a slave. The Truro River has stories to tell, as

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