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Newlyn Fisherwomen- Collecting the Catch
The second woman in from the right is Mary Wearne. As a young woman she often modelled for the Newlyn School painter Stanhope Forbes, and appeared in a number of his works including Hopeless Dawn and Last…

Cape Cornwall
St Just United Mine with Cape Cornwall in the background.

Botallack Crowns Mine
On the hillside behind are Wheal Edward and West Wheal Owles

Cornish Fishwives
Blanche Courtney and Betsy Lanyon. They sold their fish in the Market Place in Penzance and door to door. And Blanche in particular, became a favourite model for the Newlyn School Painters.

Photograph showing the aftermath of the flooding at Newlyn in 1894. The bridge across to St. Peter's Church has been partially destroyed and the photograph shows people standing on a replacement temporary bridge.
The name Gibson and Penzance is…

A photograph showing the Coombe at Newlyn totally flooded during the 1894 floods.
Gibson Penzance appears in the bottom left hand corner

View of Oldtown Bay on St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.
Bottom left hand side is marked Gibson, Scilly

View of the Palm Avenue in the gardens of Tresco, Isles of Scilly. This is a Gibson photograph.

Market Cross Penzance

Hic procumbunt corpora piorum

Botallack Mine , St Just Gibson / Preston
on the back stamped W.THOMAS Refreshment rooms, Lands End. luncheons Daily, Good Stabling.

Excavation of presumed roman villa

Excavation of presumed roman villa

excavation of presumed roman villa, near Camborne

Possibly medieval roof slates found at excavation of roman villa

Floor tesserae at excavation of roman villa

men working on floor with tesserae