Route for Truro St Piran's Day Parade and pasty winners

This will set off from Waterfall Gardens on St George’s Road at 1pm, heading towards the War Memorial on Boscawen Street, ending at High Cross, where there will be brief speeches and songs.

Local artist Tony Minnion has been visiting St Marys C Of E Primary School and Truro High Prep to create and design banners that will be unveiled at the parade.

This project has been funded by FEAST and delivered by Salt Projects Cornwall Ltd.

Parade route

The full route for the parade will be: 

St George's Road

Frances Street

River Street

Kings Street

Boscawen Street

Around the war memorial back up Boscawen Street

Kings Street

High Cross to finish.

Pasty competition

On Saturday Lemon Quay hosted a special Truro Farmers’ Market, celebrating the best of Cornish produce, arts and crafts, with live music, including from Cornish singer songwriter Will Keating.

Some of the pasties ready for judging (Image: Rebecca Lily/'Imaginink Media')

It also saw the return of the popular Pasty Making Competition, as well as a new contest for professionals - The Battle of The Bakeries.

Now the winners have been announced, with the organisers saing: "Thank you so much to all our professional bakers who entered - we loved exploring the diversity of the makers behind the pasties, and reaaaally enjoyed tasting them all too.

"It was a tough call, with so many tip top bakers in Cornwall!"

Truro Farmers Market pasty competition 2024 winner Hannah Saint (second left) (Image: Rebecca Lily/ImagininkMedia)

However, through a collective score of the three judges, the ‘Battle of the Bakeries Champion 2024' has been named as  The Butchers Bakehouse.

Runner up in the ‘Traditional Cornish' category was Da Bara Bakery HQ.

'Best Vegan Pasty' was awarded to Berrymans Bakery Ltd, with Philp's Famous Pasties as runner up. 

The winner's trophy was made by ZennorMade and will be presented in the coming days. 

Pasty sampling in action (Image: Rebecca Lily/Imaginink Media)

There were more than 50 pasties entered on the day in the public competition, but best overall winner based on crimp, pasty and filling was named as Hannah Saint, winning food and drink at Skinner's Brewery The Tapyard Riverside as her prize.

Closely following in second place was last year's winner, Linda Johns.

The 'Rest of the World' public competition winner was won by Adam Elson, who had dinner and dessert for two at The Cornish Italian lined up as his prize. In second place was Garth Thompson.

Finally the Under 18s category saw a repeat winner in Abigail Symons.