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Hugh Town , St Mary's Looking East across Porthcressa

Holy Vale Hamlet, Central St Mary's with Horse and Cart.

Print of St Mary's Hugh Town and Pool ,Scilly

The view is looking forward along the route of the later harbour road (built 1908). The tall building to the right is still there and the building central left is the Norway Ice Store (aka the Old Ice Store) and the entrance to the Fradgan right.
It…

The site of the later fish market, looking across to Newlyn town before the harbour road was built in 1908. Building on the right was the Norway Ice store before the later, much bigger Iceworks built on the same site in 1907.
Ice was originally…

This institute is also known as the Fishermen's Mission.
Miss Nora Bolitho of Laregan, Penzance, who built the Institute in 1911 and until her death in 1929, ever sought the welfare of all Fishermen sailing out of Newlyn. The War Memorial was…

School Group

School Group

Dairy School Nance Farm Trevarrack

Run by Miss Nicholls

Robert and Mary Osborne at Tremmeda

Stage Group

Copy of a coloured painting.
Fish sale, laid out on the floor, before Newlyn fish market was built. Build to the right is the Coastguards store (later, Newlyn Post Office). The Union Inn has the sign on top of the building; this later became The…

Woman mending pilchard net. Exact location unknown, possibly Newlyn Town.

Newlyn fishwives and their wicker baskets, called Cowals, congregate near the entrance to the North Pier near the Newlyn Post Office (then the Coastguard building also now at the back of the Newlyn harbour offices).

Area is the Strand, Street-an-Nowan, showing a weigh bridge far left bottom, now discontinued. Buildings left to right are part of Chigwins Grocery Shop (now the Chinese takeaway), then The Swordfish Inn (previously the Union), then the Newlyn Co-op…

End of the railings is where the Mousehole bus from Penzance stops. All white buildings in the centre are gone. Now this is Newlyn car park, not to be confused with the other car park at St Peter's Hill, Newlyn Town. Note: the road looks as if there…

Seaweeds 'prepared and mounted with care' by Henry Heath glen to My Herbert Thomas, Editor of the Cornishman 18th October 1917. Given to Morrab Library by Mr Thomas May 1953
Page 23 Dosya coccinea; Heterosiphonia plumose

Bound hand drawn and hand written account of the "Natural Order of Shells'. Page 12

Bound hand drawn and hand written account of the "Natural Order of Shells'. Page 2

View of LandsEnd from the South