Browse Items (608 total)

  • Collection: James Downing Collection

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 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 521.tif
Postcard. 134mm x 84mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by HR Bridges, Bookseller, Promenade, Penzance. Sepia photograph of boats in the harbour with St Mary's in the background.

JDCP 522.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Harvey Barton & Son Ltd, Bristol. Serial number 4079. Colourised photograph of Penzance harbour and St Mary's Church. The same image has been used in JDCP 523.

JDCP 525.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Harvey Barton and Sons Ltd, Bristol. Lightly colourised but basically sepia image of tall ship in the wet dock at Penzance Harbour. St Mary's Church is in the background.

JDCP 465.tif
Postcard 145mm x 92mm. Plain back. No message or address. Engraving taken from Views in Devonshire and Cornwall by Henry Besley of Exeter published 1861. Dimensions and format of card suggest it was produced after 1899.

JDCP 541.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. 2 and a half penny stamp. Postmark 13th June 1962. Addressed to Rev and Mrs Shillerker, St Mark's Vicarage Flat, Enfield. Holiday news from Freda. Published by J Salmon Ltd, Sevenoaks in the Salmon Series. Colour photograph of…

JDCP 511.tif
Postcard. 136mm x 86mm. Postmarked Truro, 14th June 1928. Addressed to Miss Hart, West Kensington. Name of sender illegible. Holiday greetings from 23 Barwis Terrace, Penzance. Sepia photograph of the Abbey Steps, Abbey Warehouses and St Mary's…

JDCP 511A.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm.cDuplicate of JDCP 511. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Sepia photograph of the Abbey Steps, Abbey Warehouses and St Mary's Church. Published by J Salmon, Sevenoaks. Serial number 2512.

JDCP 517.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by J Salmon, Sevenoaks in the Sepio Series, no 2572. Tinted photograph of Market House and Terrace at the top of Market Jew Street.

JDCP 506.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 90mm. No postmark, stamp, address or message. Half-penny postage. Trichomatic postcard printed in Belgium for J Welch and Sons, Portsmouth. Tinted photograph of Penzance railway station featuring the Cornish Riviera Express which…

JDCP 494.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 90mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Half-penny postage. Published by J Welch and Sons, Portsmouth. Printed in Saxony. Black and white photograph of Penzance Harbour and town looking down over the railway station and engine…

JDCP 514.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by J Welch and Sons, Portsmouth. Sepia photograph of some small children in smocks walking up the Abbey Slip, Warehouses and St Mary's Church.

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 552A.tif
Postcard. 148mm x 104mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by John Hinde Ltd, Redruth. Photo by David Hastilow. Aerial colour photograph of Penzance with Jubilee Pool and St Anthony's gardens in the foreground.

JDCP 498.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. No postmark, stamp, address or message. John Hinde Original. Serial no. 2DC 152. Photo by John Hinde. Colour photograph of Penzance harbour and St Mary's church from Lescudjack.

JDCP 497.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. No postmark, stamp, address or message. John Hinde Original. Photo D. Noble. Printed in Ireland. Colour photograph of the harbour looking down over the railway station.

JDCP 503.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. No stamp, postmark or address. John Hinde Original. Photo Phillip Fenton. Serial number 2DC 2605. Handwritten message concerning clippings in the Western Morning News. No names for addressee or sender. Colour photograph of…

JDCP 530.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 104mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by John Hinde. Serial number 2DC 1592. Photograph by David Hastilow. Colour photograph of small boats in Penzance harbour. On the left are the Abbey Steps, right of centre is…

JDCP 531.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. Duplicate of JDCP 508. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by John Hinde, Redruth. Serial number 2DC 2106. Colour photograph of St Mary's Church from the wet dock of Penzance Harbour. Vessels featured include…
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