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The occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the enlargement of the Borough of Penzance. The original photograph was printed in a newspaper, which has led to the mottled appearance.

Page from a book, showing the ruins of Lower Quarter Primitive Methodist Chapel and the Old Bible Christian Chapel

People gathered at the Stamps, Lower Quarter, Ludgvan.

People gathered in Chapel Square, Ludgvan. Everyone is smartly dressed and gathered around a horse and cart. The back of the photograph says Fish seller at Chapel Square Ludgvan.

This is a cutting from a newspaper.

From Wikipedia:
Penzance station was opened in 1852, but had major redevelopment in 1876. The new rock-faced granite building was designed by William Lancaster Owen.

Two women and a man at the Holy Well at Madron, photographed in 1912

The actor centre stage is Benjamin
Luxon.

The Pavilion theatre on the promenade.

Female workers at the West Cornwall Laundry. This was a commercial laundry located near the Humphry Davy statue, operating from 1901 as the West Cornwall Steam Laundry and later renamed the Penzance Sanitary Steam Laundry. The laundry baskets are…

The principal actor in the centre is Eric Francis.

Many women all wearing satin ball gowns.

In the Pavilion Theatre, on the promenade.

A photograph of Sennen harbour, taken in September 1896, showing a number of fishermen and their boats. The round building was originally built in 1876 to house the capstan wheel that was used to winch boats up the harbour slipway.
There are…

Penzance Operatic Society

Actors named on the back of the photograph are Joe Denley, Douglas Williams and Danny Johns.

Actors named on the back of the photograph are Reg Harvey and Anne Murray.

Actors named on the back the photograph are Alan Broom, Geoffrey Page, Elise Harvey, George North and Eric Dale