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Penzance Cricket Team.

Normal complement of 27 Locomotives often doubled in summer. Largest passenger locomotive depot in Cornwall. This entire area was demolished and cleared for HST Depot which opened in 1978

Tommy Opie's Austin Cars at Penzance Fair in 1978 . (Nigel Philby)

The eastern end of Penzance harbour showing (centre) the Ross Bridge with the inner basin and Holman's repair yard in the foreground. Part of the harbour was reclaimed for car parking about 1960. This is a winter photograph - both the car park and…

Penzance Pirates rugby club and committee.

Penzance Pirates rugby team

Storm damage on Penzance promenade after Ash Wednesday storm of March, 1962

More than 100 families left houses, fishing boats flung into streets& 4 ton granite blocks dislodged from sea wall. Ash Wednesday Storm

A View of Penzance Railway Station looking down on the tracks, showing the standard Gauge of the Old West Cornwall Railway and the Broad Gauge of the Great Western in situ together

Brunels earlier Station rebuilt in 1879 when GWR took over West Cornwall Railway

Ashley hall and Dumbledon hall in background

Penzance Spring Fair with spectators, May 1977, with T, Whitelegg's Cyclone Speedway ride pictured.

Penzance Spring Fair (May 1977), showing the Castle of Fun ("Laughs galore inside!")

Outside 'Coles' now the Commercial Hotel
CTC Badge on Building. PREVREF 1823 duplicate