Sunday Times Where Was I? Holiday Competition

Not much of a challenge this week, they might as well have supplied the answers along with the huge giveaway clues. Near as I can figure it, the most likely answers seem to me to be:

Q1. Truro

Q2. Richard Lemon Lander

The initial clues given place us firmly in the city of Truro, in Cornwall. It's name is said to be derived from a word meaning 'three rivers'. From looking at the OS map of the area, there seem to be two rivers, the Kenwyn and the Allen which flow through the city itself, these later merge into the Truro river. I found references which claim that Truro became a city c1877 and that the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in 1880. The Architect who designed it was called John Loughborough Pearson (b1817) and the sources I checked say that his father was an etcher. Pearson incorporated the church of St Mary's, which stood on the site for the new cathedral, into his design and it is now part of it.

A locomotive called the city of Truro (built c1903 for GWR and still extant) is said in some references, to belong to the National Railway Museum (NRM). The explorer, Richard Lemon Lander (born c1804) was a very exotic character, some references claim that he was actually born in a pub, either the Daniell Arms on Lemon street or the Fighting Cocks Inn, on Green street, depending on which source you check. There is a statue on a column dedicated to his memory outside of the Daniell Arms on Lemon street. Lander followed the Niger river from Bussa down to the Atlantic ocean, encountering many dangerous people on his travels. He was eventually killed by local tribesmen on a subsequent trip to the area.

A playwright, baptised in Truro c1721 was Samuel Foote and according to references checked, he did publish a play called Taste, c1752. An author who was born c1884 who attended school in Truro, was Sir Hugh Walpole and he did write a work called 'Jeremy' c1919. The motto of the city of Truro, whose coat of arms does have a fisherman, a miner, a ship and two fishes on it, may be 'Exaltatum Cornu In Deo'. The Eastender has not translated any Latin since studying the works of Pliny the Younger back in nineteen canteen and has not come up with a meaning for this phrase.........(IIRC Pliny the Elder led a far more exciting and interesting life than PTY, though he did get a bit too close to a volcano)

Link to the competition:

Sunday Times Where Was I? Competition