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Fish Seller and Donkey Cart, possibly Newlyn or Penzance

Sepia style photograph of some traditional Cornish Luggers setting sail for the fishing grounds

Mount's Bay Luggers, departing Penzance with St. Michaels Mount in the background.
With a hand written message to the reverse to a recipient in Truro

Local Fisherfolk in traditional working attire of the day

Three Newlyn Fisherfolk in traditional garb.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Lincoln

A study of a typical Cornish Fishwife in traditional working clothes on Market Jew Street, Penzance. The Humphrey Davy Statue is featured in the background

Women landing Fish, Newlyn, from Fishing Boat PZ10

A Fish sale in the Market located in Street-an-Nowan, Newlyn

Packing fish for R. Sullivan

The Mary Hannah was on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal.

Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne.…

On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.

The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…

View of the Gardens with Italian Pergola , no longer standing. The card was posted the day after Britain declared War on Germany.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Ladyhood, Birmingham

General view.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in New Cross, London

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View of the Abbey Ruins, with a Cornish Palm tree in Flower

General view of the gardens, situated on Tresco, Isles of Scilly