Archive exhibition pages

The school archive documents the development and growth of the school from its foundation in 1879 to the present day. 

Material held in the archive includes:

School magazines 1891 – present

Minutes of governors’ meetings

Photographs

Accounts

Building plans

Former Pupils’ Association records

Admission Registers

Scrapbooks

Secondary Sources

First World War database

Uniform

Recent Exhibitions

80 years since the foundation of the School Chapel

(1927-2007)

On 8 June 1928 the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) laid the foundation stone of the school chapel. The students were ‘agog with excitement’ and it was felt that ‘this was the greatest day of our history, for it was the first time a Royal visit had been paid to the School’. After a brief speech, and a request for an extra week to be added to the summer holiday, the Prince declared the foundation stone ‘well and truly laid’.

30 years since the opening of the DIY sports block

(1977-2007)

On 12 September 1977, Sir Alan Dalton, deputy chairman of English China Clay, opened the new sports hall. Work on the hall had started 2 years earlier and was carried out by pupils, staff, parents and friends of the school during holidays, half days and the occasional private study period, under the direction of Dennis Keam, the technology master.

 

 

Recent acquisitions

September 2007:

	Photograph of a play cap with the school crest owned by Thomas Battershill (TS 1899-1901). Unlike formal school caps from that time this cap was green and worn by younger boys when playing outside in break-times or for cricket. The original cap is held by St Agnes Museum.
[Photo: A similar play cap as modelled by young cricketer N.L. Hofland (TS 1893-97) in 1896]

 

 

April 2007:

	Copies of photographs of Francis G Crapp (TS 1933-39) from his great niece Mrs L Harrow who recently gave a donation for a lectern in the School Chapel in his memory. Crapp was a Sergeant Navigator in the RAFVR, which he joined in 1941. He was reported missing in action in December 1944. His name appears on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey as well as on the memorial in the School Chapel.
[Photos – c.1933 after joining TS and c.1941 after joining the RAFVR]

 

Donations of items

The archive is always growing, and we are grateful for any contributions from former students or staff. We can make copies of photographs and return if you do not wish to part with them permanently.

Enquiries to:

The Archivist, Truro School, Trennick Lane, Truro, TR1 1TH

01872 272763

jvw@truroschool.com

 

 

High on the Hill:

A History of Truro School 1880-2004

By Joanna Wood        

ISBN: 0-9549005-1-0

 

	'On Tuesday 20 January 1880 thirty-five boys, several of whom were in want of a good night’s rest, sat down to lessons for the first time in the newly opened Truro College.
		By 2004 the College, renamed Truro School in 1931, has grown beyond recognition from those early days in Strangways Terrace. Yet the ethos of the school remains, to live up to the motto ‘esse quam videri’ – ‘to be, rather than seem to be’.'

 

Produced for the 125th anniversary of the school in 2005 with the Former Pupils’ Association, High on the Hill is a comprehensive study of the school’s history since it began in 1880.

 

Copies of the book are available from the Truro School Development Office at £15.95 (excluding p&p) or from bookshops in Truro.