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The MFV Conqueror was a modern freezer trawler built in 1965 by Hall, Russel & Co Ltd of Aberdeen, for the Northern Trawlers Company. By 1977 she had undergone a major refit to extend her freezer capacity, and left her home port of Hull to go…

Constantine Bay Landscape Evening

Drift Dam

Construction of the Penzance floating dock (wet dock) in the 1880s. Taken by G H Gibson at Penzance. The amount of detail in the photo is incredible, with each worker's clothing being plainly visible.

Copy of engraving of Bodinnoc Ferry, Fowey

Copy of Early Vibert Pencil drawing Market Place, Shops, Pearse, Rowe, Dunkin, C M Vibert,.

Early Pencil drawing Green Market,Penzance by Vibert .Shoulder of Mutton, Entrance to Civil Debtors Prison, Three Tuns Inn.

copy Etching by Prout of the Old Market House taken down 1836 printed and published by Vibert Vibert Coll prints. 1836..

copy of letter or invoice for the Richards Bros Photographic business with cut-out from photo superimposed. 2 Queen Street, Penzance.

Copy of photo Group of Men with the Prince of Wales, Edward VIII

Copy of postcard of Mount Prospect Britons Hill described as a Polytechnic Residence.

Copy of postcard of Penzance Docks inner harbour looking towards the Dolphin Tavern. Trinity House vessels (steam)

Copy of postcard of the Cornish Reviera Express in Penzance Station bottom of Market Jew Street busy with carts. c1900.. Steam Engine Victorian Costumes Pram seat shelter
The Longboat Inn

Copy of postcard of the Newlyn Bolitho Gardens near the sea front

Corner of Chyandour by bridge over river.

Cornish Bards meeting Padderbury Tor. 1928/30..

Cornish Church Sandy Scrub J14.

Cornish Cross

Cornish Fish Woman.
taken from "Mates Illustrated Penzance"
(Corporation Official Guide)

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.