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Mary Eddy's cottage Gulval, now demolished

Rosemorran Gulval

Landing Fish at Newlyn

Penzance Harbour 1896Morning departure of Lady of the Isles steamship to the Isles of Scilly.

Penzance Harbour showing construction of the Floating Dock.

Fishing vessel left to rot

Fishermen admiring the catch.

Fishing boats at Newlyn harbour.
PZ 185 is Dew-Genen-Ny

A distant view of Wherrytown and Penzance showing Bodilly's Mill and Serpentine Works .

Penberth Cove

Fishing boats in Newlyn Harbour
PZ 576 Boy Gary in the foreground

Fishing Trawler PZ 1865 Dew-Genen-Ny alongside the quay in Penzance Floating Dock behind the green sheds.

Fishing Boat PZ 523 Kimbill mooed in Newlyn Harbour

Penzance Harbour. Cornish Luggers in full sail are shown leaving the harbour. Ross Bridge in the middle ground has a number of small gigs tied to the railings.

Cornish Fishwives
Blanche Courtney and Betsy Lanyon. They sold their fish in the Market Place in Penzance and door to door. And Blanche in particular, became a favourite model for the Newlyn School Painters.

Botallack Crowns Mine
On the hillside behind are Wheal Edward and West Wheal Owles

Cape Cornwall
St Just United Mine with Cape Cornwall in the background.

Newlyn Fisherwomen- Collecting the Catch
The second woman in from the right is Mary Wearne. As a young woman she often modelled for the Newlyn School painter Stanhope Forbes, and appeared in a number of his works including Hopeless Dawn and Last…

Mounts Bay
Newlyn fishing fleet and brigantine bound for Penzance.

Penzance Market Jew Street