Browse Items (623 total)

  • Collection: James Downing Collection

JDCP 493.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. No postmark, stamp or address. Seems to have been scribbled on by a child. Start of message, 'Dear Auntie Nan'. Published by Millar and Lang in the National Series. This is a hand-coloured photograph of Penzance harbour and…

JDCP 492.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, message or address. Published by Valentine's postcards. Divided back. Black and white view of Penzance harbour and town from Lescudjack Hill Fort looking out over the Coastguard Station. The houses on the…

JDCP 491.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 90mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Half-penny postage. Argall's series, printed in Germany. Divided back. Hand coloured photograph of Penzance harbour from Lescudjack looking out over the Coastguard Station which was…

JDCP 490.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 88 mm. Postmarked Penzance 10th June 1957. Holiday news from 'V' to the Misses Bick in Cheltenham.
No publisher information. Serial number 4070M. The photograph of Penzance from Lescudjack Hill Fort is identical to JDCP 489 but has…

JDCP 489.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark or address. Note from Bob about attending local Rotary Club. No publisher information. Divided back. Serial number 4070. Tinted photograph of Penzance harbour and town from Lescudjack Hill Fort. Houses have…

JDCP 488.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 88mm. Identical to JDCP 487 with different colour tinting. No stamp, postmark, message or address. Divided back. Tinted view of Penzance harbour and town from Lescudjack Hill Fort. The houses on the south side of Thornberry Terrace…

JDCP 487.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 88mm. Halfpenny stamp postmarked Mousehole 1909, month illegible. Addressed to Mrs Jane Collier, Mousehole. Message, 'Best Wishes'. No publisher information. Divided back. Tinted view of Penzance harbour and town from Lescudjack…

JDCP 486.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. No publisher information. Black and white photo of the Hotel Royale which have been Royale Court flats since 1980s. The Hillman Minx Estate Car dates the photo to the early 1960s.

JDCP 485.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. Card has serrated edges. No stamp but halfpenny postage required. No postmark, address or message. No publishing information. Legend on face advertising Western Daily Mercury, Western Evening Herald and Western Weekly Mercury.…

JDCP 484.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 88mm. Halfpenny stamp. Postmarked 2nd April 1914. Published by The Photchrom Co. Ltd. in the Celesque Series. Addressed to Miss Jenny McPherson, Rothesay, Scotland. Message from Susie? at 12 Morrab Road thanking her for the photos.…

JDCP 483.tif
Postcard. 83mm x 133mm. No stamp or postmark. No publisher information. Inscribed 'Taken Feby 1913 for Mrs Russell, Chyandour, Penzance.' Sepia photograph of house in Chyandour Square, now the Halcyon Guest House.

JDCP 482.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. No publisher information. Undivided back. Ponsandane House was built in 1857 and is now a care home. The Holiday Fellowship Trust (HF Holidays) was founded in 1913.

JDCP 481.tif
Postcard. 87mm x 137mm. No stamp, postmark, message or address. No publisher information. Divided back. Ponsandane House was built 1857 and is now a care home.

JDCP 480.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. No postmark, stamp, message or address. Produced by Valentine's as part of the Photo-Brown series. Serial number 90179. This suggests a date of 1923 which seems a bit early. This a sepia version of JDCP 480, probably the…

JDCP 479.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. No postmark, stamp, message or address. Produced by Valentine's as part of the Valesque series. Serial number 90179. This suggests a date of 1923 which seems a bit early. This a colorised version of JDCP 480. View of families…

JDCP 478.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 88mm. Postmark Penzance 27th April 1911. Note from George to his sister, Miss R Brown in Reading asking for two bags of biscuits. No pubisher information. Faded black and white image taken from above Chyandour of Eastern Green and…

JDCP 477.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 90mm. No postmark, stamp, address or message. Stamped into the image are the words Gibson and Sons, Penzance and Scilly Isles. Sepia photo of whales stranded at Long Rock on July 1st 1911. In the background can be made out Penzance…

JDCP 476.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 87mm. No stamp, postmark, message or address. Back has been scribbled over. No publisher information but similar to Gibson and sons card JDCP 477. Sepia photograph of stranding at Long Rock on July 1st 1911. Sightseers and officials…

JDCP 475.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 90mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. No publisher information. Black and white photograph of whales stranded at Long Rock. Penzance in background.

JDCP 474.tif
Postcard. 142mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Printed in Great Britain. Divided back. Five sepia views of Land's End, St Michael's Mount, Bolitho Gardens, Jubilee Pool and Seagulls,
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