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HARB 4.010.tif
Floating Dock being pumped dry for the first time in living memory. On right temporary retaining barrier to permit necessary engineering work. Holmans Dry Dock and Ship Repairing Yards in background

HARB 4.011.tif
AUDACITY is birthed and the lightship is brought in from the floating basin.

GARD 8.002.tif
Bolitho Gardens (Roman Gardens) in Wherrytown.

BUILD 8.004.tif
Smiths Dock Trust Co, T Hobson & Co, Mitchell Bros, The Lowestoft Fish Selling Co and Great Western Railway, in Newlyn

FISH 8.001.tif
Fishing boat PZ 297 with Newlyn in the background.

ARTS 8.001.tif
Photo of a steel engraving of Penzance and Newlyn. The steeple is the Chapel of Our Lady, later replaced by St Mary's Church.

HARB 8.006.tif
Harbour with Mousehole in the background, showing boats at low tide. (150 PZ)

HARB 8.007.tif
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…

SHIP 8.003.tif
SLIGHTLY BLURRED PHOTO

HARB 8.008.tif
With part of Newlyn's vast trawler fleet in the background, one of Messrs Barriball's machines starts work on Newlyn harbour expansion programme at Mary Williams pier (which officially opened in 1980).

HARB 8.009.tif
Penzance floating dock. A general view with the gates open. The cabin cruisers are typical of the summer traffic using the harbour facilities. Commercial traffic is now mostly confined to coal and ships under repair by Holman's ship repair yards.
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