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Showing the Old Pier and Green Rocks. The construction work had just started on the South Pier (built 1885).
The chimney stack of the Tolvadden Copper mine can just be seen in the left of the picture.
Building just right is the early Ice…

Shows entrance to Jack Lane. This was once the main thoroughfare from Penzance going up Chywoone Hill (Paul Hill) before the construction of the New Road and road bridge in 1883. Cottages to extreme right were demolished and now form part of…

Sometimes reffered to as the Strand, similar area to JDC 267. Cottages central left have now gone and now area is Newlyn car park.
Tall building right, replaces Carters bakery building which burnt down in 1906. Near junction with Newlyn Road bridge…

Approach to the Newlyn Road bridge and junction with Chywoone Hill (straight on) and right to Newlyn Coombe. See the garden railings around the house on the right. These were removed for the WW2 war effort.

View from St Peters Hill near Lynn Terrace across the bay to the Battery Rocks and the Eastern shore. Mounts Bay Luggers anchored. Street -an-Nowan continues down and left to Duke street. Both sections were nicknamed Breakneck Street because of the…

Tall granite building near the old bridge. Replaced in 1906 after fire. Was Carters house and bakery. Restored and now houses Warrens Bakery and Lenterns butchers shop. Small buildings extreme left now the Newlyn chemist shop.

Later view of JDC 271. Building near the old bridge now rebuilt with shops below. Flooded by very high tides coming from the slipway on the right. Newlyn Bridge bus stop at the railings in foreground.

Cottages behind are Florence Place. Over the bridge to the right leads to Tolcarne. Image is much the same now.

Old loft building, right hand side of Newlyn Coombe Road. Coombe River is below to the right.
About 200yds from the village above St Peter's Church.

Before the harbour road was built in 1908. You can see the cart tracks heading along to Newlyn Slip which was the main thoroughfare, only accessible when the tide was out. Mounts Bay lugger aground on the beach. Fishing nets laid out to dry.

Building far right is the Edward Bolitho Convalescant Home, erected 1893. Large new houses under construction to the right along the New Road. Early Penl;ee Gardens (later Bolitho Gardens) next to sea front. Fishermen mending nets and gear (About…

Tolcarne Terrace, centre. Twin roofs of Newlyn ice works can just be seen to the left.

This is next to the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery (built in 1895 in memory of John Opie, artist)
The fishermen are laying out nets for mending. Large load of gill nets on a cart with man standing atop.
Building and chimney in background is the mill…