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20 unusual facts about Truro


Agent K

In the second film, now working at a post office in Truro, Massachusetts, Kevin Brown believes that he spent 35 years in a coma and displays no immediate recognition when Jay shows up to bring him back in.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The aircraft were designed by Don Mitchell and were produced by a number of companies, the last being AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Arthur James Mason

His departure from Cambridge was at the urging of his friend Edward Benson, who had been appointed as Bishop of Truro and wanted Mason to act as diocesan missioner.

Atlantic House

Suspicions centered around a black box the men had carried out to the dunes near a government radio station in Truro.

CFB Cornwallis

The Dominion Atlantic Railway operated special troop trains to the base's station and also relied on scheduled passenger service, connecting with Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains from Saint John, New Brunswick (recruits would then take a CPR passenger ferry across the Bay of Fundy to nearby Digby) as well as Canadian National Railways passenger trains at Truro and Halifax.

Charles Spence Bate

Charles Spence Bate, FRS (March 16, 1819, Truro, Cornwall – July 29, 1889, Devon) was a British zoologist and dentist.

Charles William Hempel

Not finding employment in London, he removed to Truro in Cornwall, where in May 1804 he was elected organist of St. Mary's Church (which later became Truro Cathedral).

Donald Stoltenberg

He simultaneously taught printmaking at the Castle Hill Center in Truro, Massachusetts and the Falmouth Artists Guild on Cape Cod.

Edward Knight Collins

He was born on August 5, 1802 in Truro, Massachusetts to Israel Gross Collins (1776–1831) and Mary Ann Knight (c.1780-c.1802).

High Cross, Cornwall

High Cross, Truro is also the name of a cobbled plaza in Truro

Jerry Nelson

In December 2009, Nelson, who summered in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, released Truro Daydreams, an album of original songs.

Molly Dingle

Educated at Presbyterian Hall at St. John's and the Holloway School at St. John's and the Teacher's College, Truro, Nova Scotia.

Nora Bernard

On December 27, 2007, Nora Bernard was found dead in her home in Truro, Nova Scotia; although she was originally thought to have died of natural causes, on December 31, police arrested her grandson James Douglas Gloade and charged him with her murder.

Patty Larkin

Patty currently lives with her partner and two adopted children in Truro, Massachusetts, a resort town on Cape Cod.

Péter Fröhlich

Fröhlich currently lives and works in Truro, leading Truro Fencing Club's performance program.

Truro Township, Franklin County, Ohio

Truro Township owes its name to Truro, Nova Scotia, the former hometown of the Taylor family of early settlers.

Truro, Nova Scotia railway station

That November saw the ICR complete a new line from Truro to Moncton and by 1876 the line would be extended to Quebec.

The Truro Railway Station is an inter-city railway station in the town of Truro, Nova Scotia.

This came to an abrupt halt on 15 January 1990 after massive budget cuts to Via Rail saw rail service from Truro to Sydney, as well as to Edmundston, New Brunswick annulled, leaving Truro with only the 6 day/week Ocean service from Halifax to Montreal.


Cape Cod National Seashore

A former United States Coast Guard station on the ocean in Truro is now operated as a 42-bed youth hostel by Hostelling International USA.

CKCL

CKTY-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, which held the call sign CKCL from 1947 to 2001

CKTO-FM, a radio station (100.9 FM) licensed to Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, which held the call sign CKCL-FM from 1965 to the mid-1970s

CKTY

CKTY-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Cornish currency

A Royalist mint was established in Truro in 1642-43 during the English Civil War by Sir Richard Vyvyan; in September 1643 it was moved to Exeter.

Darren Dawidiuk

Dawidiuk joined the Cornish Pirates as an Academy player in 2006 having played his youth rugby at Truro, joining the city club at the age of 12, and making progress through the juniors and colts before he made a 1st team debut as a blind-side flanker in a league match against St. Ives.

He played for England Colleges again in 2006, and also captained the Truro College team that beat South Gloucestershire and Stroud College in the final of the British Colleges Cup competition played at Castlecroft.

Feock

Feock, Cornwall, a village and civil parish south of Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom

George Robertson Sinclair

He became the first cathedral organist of the new diocese of Truro.

George Warrender

Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet (1782–1849), Member of Parliament for Haddington Burghs, Truro, Sandwich, Westbury and Honiton

Henry Louis Gibson

Henry Louis Gibson (1906–1992) a British-born American pioneering medical photographer, was born in Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and died in Rochester, New York State, United States of America.

John Passmore Edwards

As well as London libraries such as at East Dulwich, and Edmonton, he gave the public library buildings in Devon at Newton Abbot and in Cornwall at Bodmin, Camborne, Falmouth, Launceston, Liskeard, Penzance, Redruth, St Ives and Truro.

Molly Dingle

Dingle after completing her teaching course at Truro returned to Holloway School in 1915 where she taught Kindergarten until her retirement in 1952.

Nick Nieland

Dr Nicholas ("Nick") Nieland (born 31 January 1972 in Truro, Cornwall) is a British javelin thrower.

North Truro Train Station

North Truro (a.k.a. Pond Village) first saw train service in 1873, when the Old Colony Railroad extended the tracks from Wellfleet, Massachusetts to Provincetown, with a depot probably built the same year.

Portia White

Portia May White was born in 1911 in Truro, Nova Scotia, the third of thirteen children born to Izie Dora and William Andrew White.

Reade Stafford

He was a Member of Parliament for East Grinstead in 1593 and Truro, Cornwall 1597-1598, alongside Maurice Berkeley.

Spilling Blood in 8 mm

Previously unseen documentary filmed at London forum and Truro Hall for Cornwall, May 2004

St Blazey A.F.C.

The nearest train station is Par, approximately two miles away, which provides direct transport to Truro, Plymouth, and London.

Table Table

Some sites had their pub name changed, 'The Old Forge' became 'The Carnon Inn in Carnon Downs, Truro, Cornwall.

Vanessa Beeman

She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.

Vyvyan family

For the Vivian family of Glyn and Truro, Cornwall See Baron Vivian