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Fishing Boats in Mounts Bay, Cornwall.
taken from "Mates Illustrated Penzance"
(Corporation Official Guide)

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A well composed shot of fishing boats in the Cove.
With hand written message in ink to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Gulval

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View of the Cove with fishing boats.

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The Cove with Punts (local name for a small row boat) in the foreground and 'Inkwell Pots' (Crab Pots)

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An overall view, of interest is the winding Capstan for hauling the fishing boats up onto the shore.
With a hand written message in pencil to the reverse of the card

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Fishing Boats drawn up on the Beach

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The Old Pier (Medieval) and a Mount's Bay lugger aground in the harbour foreground, with many more anchored off shore in Gwavas Lake. Fish being landed in small punts to the waiting 'Jousters' with their wicket baskets and donkey carts. This is the…

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Several old luggers aground. One has a pile of gill nets on the deck. Note the early method of boat registration numbers, ie, numbers then letters compared to the current method of letters then numbers. Note also the very rocky foreground in the…

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Both harbour walls are existing which indicates the date is at least 1895 but before 1905 when the harbour road was built. The harbour is full of sailing vessels.
Top, small white building, top central is Penzer House. The large row below, top…

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Foreground right is the end of the Old Pier in Newlyn. View is across to the new harbour road built in 1908, joining two parts of the village which became known as 'Uplong and Downlong'. They have just started building up the new walls supporting…

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View is across the harbour to the now completed harbour road (1908). The building, right central, with all the windows is the so-called Industrial Building.

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The pier has not yet been widened to present width. Vessels moored alongside, one with a narrow funnel looks like a visiting steam drifter from possibly Yarmouth or the East Coast in general.
A small group of locals from the period are on the pier.

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Looking towards the harbour road and fish market. A mixture of fishing vessels, some visitors from Fowey and St Ives judging by the registration numbers FY32 and SS84.

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Before the harbour offices were built. Punts landing fish catches. Horse and donkey carts of the fish hawkers waiting to ferry away the catch. Merchant's boxes and baskets stacked on the North Pier. You can just see the stern of a punt with the name…

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Similar to JDC 413, looking in the opposite direction, ie, down the harbour to the South Pier in the distance. About half tide. Mount's Bay luggers alongside the North Pier. Early fish agents had their wooden sheds on the North Pier.
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