History of Cornwall's High Street with the BBC

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A unique shop will be opening in Truro's Lemon Street this weekend.
The pop up shop will transport you from the busy shopping world of Truro today back into the 1930s.
The shop will be open to the public from Friday 29 to Sunday 31 October.
The Grocer's will be situated at 6-7 Lemon Street from 10am - 5pm and entry is free.
Come and share pictures and stories of the local High Street in years gone by.
In preparation for the unique shop coming to Lemon Street, 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.

In Pictures: Truro today and Yesteryear
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 by clicking here
Nationally BBC One has recruited a team of today's shopkeepers for an adventure.
The five modern day shopkeepers and their families will be catapulted back to the 1930s when the high street was born.



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Another view of Boscowen Street

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.



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