Browse Items (639 total)

  • Collection: James Downing Collection

JDC 348.tif
Piles of fish laid out own the market floor. Vessels came alongside the market near the railings and landed their catches.

JDC 432.tif
PZ 17 identified as the Peel Castle. The vessel is a 'long lines' vessel, hence baskets of lines on the deck. The backdrop is Newlyn Town cliff near the Fishermans Arms Inn. Lyn Terrace is the 2nd top right.

JDC 012.tif
125x100mm. Grace Strick's cottage and shop

JDC 135.tif
Fishing vessel Ben Loyal alongside Newlyn Harbour. View across to Trewarveneth Street and Centenary Chapel

JDC 412.tif
Same area as shown in JDC 411, but slightly to the left elevation looking directly into the centre of The Strand, this time at low water. The building on the far left is the Swordfish Inn (then a different name). The next building now is the Newlyn…

JDC 408.tif
In the foreground is a group of small boats, ie, punts, and one sailing lugger. All these boats are in the old harbour.
In the centre top is a large group of Mount's Bay sailing luggers, all taking advantage of the new larger harbour, built between…

JDC 208.tif
View across to road, Street-an-Nowan and the Tolcarne

JDC 209.tif
View across to ice works and fish market

JDC 211.tif
Showing Cornish Canners, Bennetts Coal Stores, Great Grimsby Stores, Hill and Enderby Engineering works, Tolcarne Woods on skyline.

JDC 411.tif
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…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2