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Lightship brought into the inner Basin for turning into Dry Dock theopen Gates of which are under her Port Bow

Pumped out almost dry showing one of the original Dock Gates still in situ. The Dock was built about 1882 & this is the first time that people have seen the bottom of the Dock

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Floating Dock being pumped dry for the first time in living memory. On right temporary retaining barrier to permit necessary engineering work. Holmans Dry Dock and Ship Repairing Yards in background

AUDACITY is birthed and the lightship is brought in from the floating basin.

Bolitho Gardens (Roman Gardens) in Wherrytown.

Smiths Dock Trust Co, T Hobson & Co, Mitchell Bros, The Lowestoft Fish Selling Co and Great Western Railway, in Newlyn

Fishing boat PZ 297 with Newlyn in the background.

Contact sheet

Photo of a steel engraving of Penzance and Newlyn. The steeple is the Chapel of Our Lady, later replaced by St Mary's Church.

Harbour with Mousehole in the background, showing boats at low tide. (150 PZ)

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…

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