Browse Items (624 total)

  • Collection: James Downing Collection

JDCP 508.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. 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 the training ship Astrid…

JDCP 509.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by John Hinde UK Ltd, Redruth. Serial number 2DC 2599. Photograph by Phillip Fenton. Colour photograph of St Mary's Church and the harbour across the Coastguard Building and…

JDCP 534.tif
Postcard. 134mm x 84mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Judges Ltd, Hastings. Serial number 12623. Sepia image of the steamer Galacum moored at the North Arm of the wet dock in Penzance Harbour. In the background is St Mary's…

JDCP 542.tif
Postcard. 135mm x 84mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Judges Ltd, Hastings. Serial no 8017. Suggests production date of approx 1923. Sepia print of wet dock at Penzance. The steamer on the left is the Deneside, built 1910,…

JDCP 544.tif
Postcard. 134mm x 84mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Judges Ltd, Hastings. Serial no 1126. Suggests date pre 1920. Sepia image of Quay Street. The Dock Inn is on the left with St Mary's Church in the background.

JDCP 515.tif
Postcard. 135mm x 84mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Excellent quality sepia tone image of Abbey Warehouses and St Mary's Church. Published by Judges' Ltd, Hastings. Serial number 1128.

JDCP 457.tif
140x88mm novelty postcard. 'Penzance is the "Plaice" for a holiday'. Pop up drawing of a plaice superimposed on a beach scene. On reverse general greetings from Mary to Maude Grey in Plymouth. Stamped 'Liable to Letter Rate 609'. Halfpenny post.…

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 502.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. No postmark, stamp or address. Duplicate of JDCP 493. Published by Millar and Lang in the National Series. This is a hand-coloured photograph of Penzance harbour and town from allotments overlooking Thornberry Terrace. M and L…

JDCP 553.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Overland Views, Tintagel. Black and white aerial photograph of the Jubilee Pool with Taylor's Garage and St Mary's Church in the background.

JDCP 559.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 87mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Paul Bros, Morrab Studio, Penzance. Sepia image of the Sailors' Institute which was opened in 1908. The image was taken before the building of Taylor's Garage in 1936.

JDCP 532.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Pearson. Sepia image of two ships in the wet dock at Penzance Harbour. The Dolphin Inn is in the background.

JDCP 554.tif
Postcard. 140mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published Pearson Postcards. Sepia image of war memorial on battery rocks, unveiled 1922.

JDCP 552.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 88mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Photo Precision Ltd, St Albans. Sepia image of St Anthony's Gardens, Penzance. From left to right behind the gardens can be seen the Yacht Inn, the Sailor's Institute and…

JDCP 519.tif
Postcard. 137mm x 87mm. Postmarked Scilly, Sept 10th 1906. Addressed to JH Sandry, Goldsithney. Short note from AJH staying at Lyonesse House, St Mary's hoping 'All will go well'. Published by the Photochrom Co Ltd, London. Black and white photograph…

JDCP 495.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 89mm. Half-penny stamp, postmarked Penzance 26th October 1903. Pictorial Post Card. Addressed to Mrs J H Sandra, Goldsithney from 'J.C.' Black and white photograph of Penzance harbour and town looking down over the Coastguard…

JDCP 468.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 88mm. Postmark Redruth 9th April 1909. Postcard - Great Britain & Ireland. No publisher credited. Divided back. Sent by Millie to Joyce Cattran, Penzance. View of the Mount from Ponsandane area.

JDCP 472.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 89mm. Royal Academy Series. No postmark, stamp, address or message. Back divided by words 'This is a real photograph'. No postage rate quoted. Five black and white views of Penzance, Newlyn, Land's End, Porthcurno and St Michael's…

JDCP 547.tif
Postcard. 139mm x 89mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by Raphael Tuck and Sons in the Oilette series which began in 1903. Serial no 7070. Watercolour by HB Wimbush 1858-1943 who was lead artist for Tuck's. Dolphin Inn on the left,…

JDCP 516.tif
Postcard. 138mm x 89mm. Postmark Feb 13th 1906. Addressed to Miss Clara Hawes, Polmenor [sic] Cottages, Heamoor. Short message of thanks in pencil from Gladys. Postcard published by S Hildesheimer and Co, London and Manchester. Cornish Views Series,…
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