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At the Minack Theatre

The back of the photo has a note attached which reads:

"Angela Thomas, as Katisha, confronts the angry chorus at Penzance during the dramatic finale to Act 1 of the Mikado in 1973 at St John's Hall"

Group of dignitaries attending the Blessing of the Mead by local churchman in Gulval (Roskow)

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

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

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

Penzance Operatic Society

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…

In the Pavilion Theatre, on the promenade.

Many women all wearing satin ball gowns.

The principal actor in the centre is Eric Francis.

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 Pavilion theatre on the promenade.

The actor centre stage is Benjamin
Luxon.

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

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.