24 MAY 1957, Page 11

SINGING IN THE RAIN

I read in the West Briton that the charming Regency crescent called Walsingham Place in Truro is to be preserved through the action of a firm of young architects of a modern-style build- ing to be erected in Boscawen Street. The Mayor and Council of Truro stood in the rain and re- corded their assent to the preserving of this Regency crescent in the heart of Truro. It is an encouraging sign that public opinion is beginning to turn against the wholesale destruction which this column so often records.