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Penzance floating dock. A general view with the gates open. The cabin cruisers are typical of the summer traffic using the harbour facilities. Commercial traffic is now mostly confined to coal and ships under repair by Holman's ship repair yards.

The eastern end of Penzance harbour showing (centre) the Ross Bridge with the inner basin and Holman's repair yard in the foreground. Part of the harbour was reclaimed for car parking about 1960. This is a winter photograph - both the car park and…

The 25-foot mackerel boat 'Andy-Roy' with Dodger at Tolcarne, Newlyn.

View of the western end of Praa Sands.

Entrance to Cable and Wireless Exiles Club with 'C S Refresher' lifebuoy

Damage on Penzance promenade after Ash Wednesday storm of March 1962.

The Dean of Truro, the Very Revd. Henry Morgan Lloyd, DSO, OBE, MA, unveiling the plaque at Truro station. Others in the photo include, on the left of the group, O.S. Nock, Esq,, BSc, C. Eng, FICE, FIMeche., the railway author; and Wing Commander…

Start of construction work on Mary Williams Pier in Newlyn.

Penzance Pirates rugby team

With part of Newlyn's vast trawler fleet in the background, one of Messrs Barriball's machines starts work on Newlyn harbour expansion programme at Mary Williams pier (which officially opened in 1980).

The start of work on Mary Williams Pier in Newlyn.

Mr Donald Trewern, Chairman of Penwith District Council, the local authority responsible for the Penzance Area, cutting the first turf on the site of the new Diesel Maintenance Depot at Penzance. Looking on are Mr Arthur Eplett, British Rail's Area…

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This sunset photograph of the ruins of Wheal Coates was taken by Tony Giles, the well-known Cornish artist. The ruins are situated within a mile of Langley Cottage, St Agnes, where Giles lived with his schoolteacher wife Hilary.

The ruins of Wheal Coates mine above Chapel Porth on the north Cornish coast. A rare sunset shot taken in the 1970s by artist Tony Giles.

Long Rock (Penzance) railway sheds from the A30 trunk road (London to Land's End) which runs nearby. Photo by Trevor Tremethick, 9 September 1974.