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The TR postcode area, also known as the Truro postcode area, [2] is a group of 27 postcode districts in South West England, within 15 post towns.These cover west Cornwall, including Truro, Penzance, Camborne, Falmouth, Hayle, Helston, Marazion, Newquay, Penryn, Perranporth, Redruth, St Agnes, St Columb and St Ives, plus the Isles of Scilly.
The Isles of Scilly is home to what is reportedly the smallest football league in the world, the Isles of Scilly Football League. [ 112 ] In December 2006, Sport England published a survey which revealed that residents of the Isles of Scilly were the most active in England in sports and other fitness activities. 32% of the population ...
Their head office is located in the Isles of Scilly Travel Centre in Penzance, Cornwall. [1] [2] Isles of Scilly Skybus Limited holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type B Operating Licence; it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with fewer than 20 seats and/or weighing less than 10 tonnes. [3]
In 1984, Isles of Scilly Skybus started operations at the airport, initially freight and charter, then scheduled services from April 1987, [9] flying Islanders and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. [6] Skybus became the sole remaining air link for the Isles of Scilly from October 2012, when the helicopter service from Penzance ended. [10]
The company is based in the Isles of Scilly Travel Centre Penzance. [1] It also owns Isles of Scilly Skybus, an operator of fixed-wing aircraft services to the Isles of Scilly, and sight seeing flights. [2] In 2010, the company had close to 1,000 shareholders, around half of whom live on the Isles of Scilly. [3]
For the first time, each of the ferries sailed daily (bar Sunday) from either Hugh Town or Penzance in 1879. [4] On Thursday 22 May 1879 the Lady of the Isles made record time for the journey from Hugh Town to Penzance with a time of 3 hours 12 minutes. [5] The accounts for the year ending June 1881 gives the principal items of income at that time.
The cost of sending a 20 word message from Penzance to the Isles of Scilly was 2s 6d (equivalent to £15.11 in 2023). [6] A second cable, manufactured by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company was laid in 1870 allowing messages to be sent or received from any Postal Telegraph Office in the United Kingdom.
St Mary's Airport or Isles of Scilly Airport (IATA: ISC, ICAO: EGHE) is an airport located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) east of Hugh Town on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, to the south west of Cornwall, UK. It is the only fixed-wing airport serving the Isles of Scilly, handling most air traffic to and from the Islands.