Windows in Truro
I was in Truro last week waiting outside a coffee shop for a friend and when I looked up I saw a photo op! I thought I would submit it to Dawn’s “Lingering Look at Windows“, as it has some cool windows in it. This was taken at around 1730, a couple of hours before sunset.
This is the side of the old “Coinage Hall”. A couple of hundred years ago Truro was a “Stannary Town”. Cornwall had a thriving tin mining industry, and ingots were brought to Stannary Towns for assay.
It now houses tea houses and a Pizza Express, though the outside has been left largely untouched.
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They are indeed very pretty
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It’s weird I haven’t really seen them before. I guess I’m usually just rushing around.
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I keep reading that one sentence as you took the picture in 1730, not AT 1730.
I need to develop a liking for coffee, I think.
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My time-travelling secret is out 🙂
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Ali, That’s a great photo. I love the way the UK keeps so many of the old historic buildings. 🙂 — Susan
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There are a good many around. Most are “listed buildings” which means that they can’t be changed or demolished, and any outside repairs have to remain faithful to the original.
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That gives me a nostalgically feeling, Draliman. Lovely 🙂 Pawkisses 🙂
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It is a lovely old building 🙂
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Wonderful windows and beautiful stonework!
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It is a lovely building, there are quite a few in Truro. The street it’s on is cobbled as well.
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Thank you, thank you for sharing.
Are there stones that show building dates? The two buildings on the right seem younger than the one on the left by maybe a century?
If I lived with old cobblestones I’ld become so wrapped up in my imagination of peoples that walked the stones I’ld probably end up off a cliff.
I live on the wrong continent! I need old.
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There may be stones with dates, I’m not sure. I expect some Googling would provide me with dates, though! I don’t think they’re all that old, only 2 or 3 hundred years probably.
We have plenty of “old” over here 🙂
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Oh I did google the building.
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There’s some quite interesting stuff on the interwebz about Truro.
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Being quite the American I have never seen a pizza express so lovely.
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I’m sure they wanted to jazz it up but it’s probably a listed building, fortunately, meaning any external changes have to remain in keeping with the original.
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Well as an architecture, history, and preservation enthusiast I can appreciate that.
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Beautiful
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They are!
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