Boscowen Street through the ages. Archive picture supplied by Royal Cornwall Museum
A unique shop which opened for one weekend only attracted 5000 visitors. The pop up shop transported people from the busy shopping world of Truro today back into the 1930s. The shop was open to the public from Friday 29 to Sunday 31 October. The Grocer's on Lemon Street in the city. It was all part of the BBC's History of the High Street which sees unique pop up shops opening all over the UK.
The BBC Turn Back Time pop-up shop arrives in Truro and even has a 1930s shopkeeper
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The Royal Cornwall Museum has kindly raided their archives to allow us to show photos of Truro in the past. With your help we can build a gallery of Cornwall's shopping streets as they looked in the past. Why not dig out your old photo albums and archives and see what photos you have of Cornwall's town centres in the past.
We'd love to build an online gallery showing shopping streets through the ages. Email your photos to the BBC Cornwall website:
cornwall@bbc.co.uk
Nationally BBC One has recruited a team of today's shopkeepers for an adventure.
Another view of Boscowen Street
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The five modern day shopkeepers and their families will be catapulted back to the 1930s when the high street was born. Over the course of six episodes, they'll be fast-forwarded through a fascinating century of change, right up to the modern era. The families' lives will be turned upside down as they get to grips with how shopkeepers lived and worked in six key eras of British history. They are overseen by a Chamber of Commerce which enforces historically accurate rules and regulations as the decades tick by. Laced with real-life entertainment, family drama and human endeavour, the families have to deal with whatever history throws at them, from delivering goods by horse and cart to wartime rationing to the birth of the supermarket. The programme is due to go out during November.
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