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140x90mm. Pocket Novelty Card printed by ETW Dennis and Sons London and Scarborough. Front cover shows drawing of a crab on a beach. The crab can be lifted up and underneath is a series of miniature prints of postcards concertinaed together of…

Henry Kitched appears on many postcards, etc. Appears in the Newlyn School Forbes' painting 'The Lighthouse'.
Played the fiddle and led a small musical group at Boase Street Primitive Methodist Chapel about 1905.

Most of these buildings were demolished, area is now Newlyn Town car park. Note: Far right, front, out of sight, led to the much pictured 'Primrose Court' - see early postcards., This area closed around 1953-54, much later than the Navy Inn area then…

At junction with Fore Street, now a car park

Auction at Mackerel Market in front of the new harbour offices in Newlyn Harbour.

Fish preparation with seagulls on Newlyn harbour wall.

This picture is before the North and South Piers were built in Newlyn Harbout.
The tide would go out much further than this shows. Fishing vessels have to anchor off in the Gwavas Lake. Catches have to be carried ashore in small punts - as seen.…

Fisherman mending nets, surrounded by household objects including; buckets, jugs, flagons, scales and a bottle.

Seat outside, Fore Street above the Old Quay

Fishing Boats at Newlyn Harbour Including;

PZ346 'Seek' in full sail.
PZ131, Lugger 'Edgar' 1902-1929, built in Mousehole.
PZ216, 'Gypsy'

Fishing boats in Newlyn in partial sail.

Fishing Boats moored in Newlyn.

Fishing boats mored at Newlyn.

Fishing vessel PZ87, Rosebud moored up just in front of the Harbour Offices at North Pier, Newlyn.

Building seen is the Custom House.

Rosebud, a coastal lugger with a mizzen, is the vessel that took the historical petition concerning housing…

View is across the harbour to the now completed harbour road (1908). The building, right central, with all the windows is the so-called Industrial Building.

Fishing vessels including; LT643, 'Welland' and LT1021, 'Sarepta' moored in Newlyn.

The Welland was a Steel Screw Steamer built by Henry Reynolds & Co. of Oulten Broad in 1906.

A fishing vessel drifter of 82ft long and 18 ft broad and a depth…

Penzance registered PZ81 is the local vessel 'Lyonesse', owned by the Pender family (assumed from Mousehole). SS65 is a St Ives registered vessel. Photo is looking down the North Pier at full tide. On the right you can just see the South Pier and the…

Near Red Lion Inn, fishwife with her basket