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Penzance Operatic Society

In the Pavilion Theatre, on the promenade.

Many women all wearing satin ball gowns.

The principal actor in the centre is Eric Francis.

Female workers at the West Cornwall Laundry. This was a commercial laundry located near the Humphry Davy statue, operating from 1901 as the West Cornwall Steam Laundry and later renamed the Penzance Sanitary Steam Laundry. The laundry baskets are…

The Pavilion theatre on the promenade.

The actor centre stage is Benjamin
Luxon.

Two women and a man at the Holy Well at Madron, photographed in 1912

This is a cutting from a newspaper.

People gathered in Chapel Square, Ludgvan. Everyone is smartly dressed and gathered around a horse and cart. The back of the photograph says Fish seller at Chapel Square Ludgvan.

People gathered at the Stamps, Lower Quarter, Ludgvan.

Page from a book, showing the ruins of Lower Quarter Primitive Methodist Chapel and the Old Bible Christian Chapel

The occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the enlargement of the Borough of Penzance. The original photograph was printed in a newspaper, which has led to the mottled appearance.

Page from a book, showing a picture of a house in Penzance with written information under the picture.

There a number of horse drawn taxi cabs parked up.