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View looking North into the Newlyn Town Narrows

The lifeboat was based at Newlyn between 1909 and 1913. In 1913 it was relocated to the new slip and boathouse at Penlee Point near Mousehole.

Mounts Bay luggers aground in the Old Harbour. Many more at anchor in Gwavas Lake, in pre 1885 time, before the North and South Piers were built.
Registration numbers on vessels had the numbers listed first, followed by the PZ descriptor; this…

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

140x90mm. Sepia postcard of the Promenade taken at junction with Alexandra Road, near Beachfield Hotel. Serial number of card suggests photo registered in 1922. Photo probably taken a little earlier. No message, stamp or postmark on reverse.…

This institute is also known as the Fishermen's Mission.
Miss Nora Bolitho of Laregan, Penzance, who built the Institute in 1911 and until her death in 1929, ever sought the welfare of all Fishermen sailing out of Newlyn. The War Memorial was…

Two Mounts Bay luggers leaving the harbour. The vessels appear to have St Ives registration numbers (SS). The South Pier was built in 1885 and lengthened by about 100 feet in 1914. The Tidal Observatory Hut was added next to the lighthouse in 1915.…

The steelwork 'gantry' is being installed to transport the Penlee Quary stone from the 'Bins' to the ships side (conveyor system). This replace the narrow gauge railway in use from about 1902. In far left corner is the slipway for repairing fishing…

Part of the Square , now part of Newlyn Town Car park

Duke Street, houses at the Square St Peter's Hill. Demolished.
Now Newlyn Town car park.
House top left is Penzer House.

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.

End of the railings is where the Mousehole bus from Penzance stops. All white buildings in the centre are gone. Now this is Newlyn car park, not to be confused with the other car park at St Peter's Hill, Newlyn Town. Note: the road looks as if there…

Area is the Strand, Street-an-Nowan, showing a weigh bridge far left bottom, now discontinued. Buildings left to right are part of Chigwins Grocery Shop (now the Chinese takeaway), then The Swordfish Inn (previously the Union), then the Newlyn Co-op…