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Postcard Promenade Penzance from Alexandra road towards the Mounts Bay house - Queens tennis courts.. horse drawn coaches.
NO IMAGE PRESENT

Postcard The Promenade Penzance towards the Queens - Folly House - before the Pavillion.
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Postcard Early view Perranuthnoe Beach towards Cudden Point few buildings c1930.
NO IMAGE PRESENT

From the old pier looking across Fore Street. On the left is the old slipway leading down to the beach below the Red Lion Inn. There is an old ships life boat, partly submerged, in view.

View across from the North Pier Newlyn towards the Fish Market and beyond to the Strand area and Street an Nowan.
In the foreground , Stevenson's fishing boats. Boy David 90 ft. wooden trawler ,later sunk after hitting the Bucks rocks near Tater Dhu…

A double image of a painting ,artist hardly visible, of a Schooner in full sail with a pennant reading Lady Agnes. inset is the Figurehead against a walled background ,possibly a garden with a nameplate reading Lady Agnes

Parodi's store was an Italian Fish firm and agents for Pilchard export to Italy. The focus of the photo is Parodi's Store , Newlyn. situated below 'the Narrows' section of Fore St. leading to Mousehole . The Store once housed the fish tanks.
The…

This is a painting unsigned but has been confirmed by experts to be a painting by Lamorna Birch.
The Painting is located and belongs to the Morrab Library.

A wide view from the quay of Penzance.
the image is very clear and many of the wharf Road buildings are distinguishable. the Abbey slip is visible and in the foreground are the Harbour gates. there is a large ship the Lucien, Penzance in docked
on…

Very clear image of Newlyn harbour at low tide looking out through to St Michaels Mount with a large steam ship moored against the pier and various small boats tied to buoys one with a horse and cart. In the fore ground a fishing boat Boy Charlie or…

A wide view of the Promenade in the Victorian era.
The definition is particularly clear and the building easily recognisable from Folly House the oldest house on the left to the Battery rocks on the right with the Bandstand in the middle.
There…

The remains of Burt's Bath House, Penzance, exposed as the rough seas washed the sand away during the January 2014 storms. The storms of the winter of 2013/2014 destroyed a great deal of the coastline but also revealed much which had been invisible.…

The remains of Burt's Bath House, Penzance, exposed as the rough seas washed the sand away during the January 2014 storms. The storms of the winter of 2013/2014 destroyed a great deal of the coastline but also revealed much which had been invisible.…

The remains of Burt's Bath House, Penzance, exposed as the rough seas washed the sand away during the January 2014 storms. The storms of the winter of 2013/2014 destroyed a great deal of the coastline but also revealed much which had been invisible.…

An enlarged part of a sepia image from a post card of the Post Office , Crowlas village near Penzance. There is a man standing in the doorway and a boy standing close by.
the view is towards Penzance and a part of the bridge along the road can be…

Sepia print of Chapel Street, Penzance looking down towards St Mary's Church from the Egyptian House on the Right and Smith & Son , Newsagents & Shaw's Bazaar on the Left with the Union Hotel next door.
Groups of people and interesting lamps

Plaque attached to the Penzance Public Buildings directing visitors to the main entrance. The sign was photographed during the renovations of the building in 2014. The museum closed some years ago.

Sign reading "Skybus Heliport Shuttle". The Heliport closed in 2012.

A large group of men and women from Penzance Cycling club sitting outside Paul Garage, Eastern Green ,by the level crossing at Ponsandane. courtesy Vivian Heale.

Two prints of the 'Scillonian' in her berth on St Mary's , Isles of Scilly