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Padstow

St Ives Harbour. Many men and women watching the arrival of the fishing boats.

Padstow Harbour at low tide, a number of fishing vessels are tied against the quay.

Bude at the entrance to the Lock leading to the canal. A ship approaches in the background.
A worker awaits with sledge hammer possibly to assist with the lock gate.

Wreck of Albert Wilhelm, Lelant Sands

Shipwreck MV Malta
Botallack Crowns in the background

Bodinnick Ferry looking across to Fowey
The photo shows a woman holding two oars with a number of children in the street. An older woman is carefully going down the hill supported by two sticks. Another woman looks out on the scene from the doorway…

Cadgwith with fishing boats beached. A woman in white dress holding a sun parasol looks on. A man looks on from the front of a cottage

Newlyn harbour.
Lots of activity, fish carts being loaded and many fishermen standing talking. This area is now covered by fish market, parking .

Newlyn. Old harbour with fishing boats at low tide.

Sennen Cove. The image shows the use of a Seine net used for catching pilchards, sardines, herring.

Penzance harbour. Area west of what is now Ross Bridge

A Brixham trawler under sail leaving Newlyn harbour

Newlyn harbour showing a range of fishing boat types, from sail to steam as well as the small boat being propelled by oars.

Small boat with Seine net, a number of men and children look on at the catch or preparation to commence fishing.
This type of net was used to catch, pilchard, sardines, herring by form ing the net in a loop and pulling to shore.
Marazion in the…

PZ 87 Rosebud fishing vessel in Newlyn harbour. This fishing boat was at the centre of the attempt by Newlyn villagers to save their condemned properties in the 1930's. Built in 1919.
On 19th October 1937 the Rosebud left Newlyn for Westminster and…

Harbour scene, possibly Newlyn showing many fish boxes on the quayside and activity at the waters edge

Fishing boats in Newlyn harbour

Group of men on Ponsandane Bridge .
A man with a bucket is by the river, a water carrier is on the bridge.
The river runs past what is now Tesco supermarket.

Lariggan Bridge - Penzance