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The Belgian motor trawler Omer Denise went ashore on the opposite side of the Coverack Bay, at Perprean Cove. She was found next morning, stern first on the rocks, abandoned but with her engine still running. She broke up where she lay and her crew…

Reading Room and Stocks Looe.
A pair of Stocks are set into the gable above the entrance.

Old Cross on St Michael's Mount

The Megalithic Portal (megalithic.co.uk) gives a grid reference of SW 514 298 and says it is on the edge of the cliff, below the castle, on the south side of the island.

Looking for Cowrie Shells

St Mabe Church

Grid reference, SW7574 3247

For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6372&resourceID=1020

Rough seas breaking over the harbour wall

St Ives Fish Wife

Curley

Woodbury

Lady with two crutches rests by a gate

Young Woman on a Swing

Tigan Teal

Ivy Cottage

Lady in a white dress holds a parasol while looking on at a man sitting holding a young baby.

Bridestowe Church from the road above

The river at Teddington

Mary Louisa, born 1886 in Zennor, married Richard James Chappell in 1901. The back of the photograph says Lanoweth but it is not known what this refers to.

Richard James Chappell as a boy, sitting on a horse, with a foal in the foreground, outside the family business laundry, on Jennings St, Penzance. Born 11.9.1902, died 12.9.1962.