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A Brixham trawler under sail leaving Newlyn harbour

Penzance harbour. Area west of what is now Ross Bridge

Sennen Cove. The image shows the use of a Seine net used for catching pilchards, sardines, herring.

Newlyn. Old harbour with fishing boats at low tide.

Newlyn harbour.
Lots of activity, fish carts being loaded and many fishermen standing talking. This area is now covered by fish market, parking .

Cadgwith with fishing boats beached. A woman in white dress holding a sun parasol looks on. A man looks on from the front of a cottage

Bodinnick Ferry looking across to Fowey
The photo shows a woman holding two oars with a number of children in the street. An older woman is carefully going down the hill supported by two sticks. Another woman looks out on the scene from the doorway…

On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.

The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…

Th Albert Wilhelm was a 202-ton German brigade of Barth, with Master Wallace, wrecked on October 16th 1886. The vessel was launched by Drossel of Zingst in 1856

She was two days out from Ramsey, Isle of Man, in ballast to Fowey, clipped the Stones…

Bude at the entrance to the Lock leading to the canal. A ship approaches in the background.
A worker awaits with sledge hammer possibly to assist with the lock gate.

Padstow Harbour at low tide, a number of fishing vessels are tied against the quay.

St Ives Harbour. Many men and women watching the arrival of the fishing boats.

Padstow

St Ives Harbour Fishing Boats

St Ives Harbour Fishermen

Polperro

Port Isaac

St Michael's Mount

St Just Church

Grid reference, SW 3714 3143

For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6477&resourceID=1020