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Situated next to the Dolphin Tavern, Quay Street

The shop on the left is Clarkes Tailors and the shop to the right is Bodillys, both now Simpsons Outfitters, situated opposite Market House. On the extreme left is the Golden Lion Public House

Left the White Lion Inn and right now an estate agents, located in the Green Market, Penzance

Group photo of members of the Penzance Old Cornwall Society.

View of the sitting room (Gibson & Sons Photograph)
The light house is located 45km (28miles) off the South West tip of the Cornish Peninsula

Situated at 2 New Street, taken from the Penzance Guide 1902.

Situated on Causeway Head, man in the doorway is Mr Martin

Church gate and steps

Entrance view showing narrow gauge rail track

Petrol Station and Morris Motors agent. Situated formerly opposite the Railway Station at the beginning of Chyandour Cliff. The building no longer exists on this site, now the site of modern flats

Formerly known as the Norway Store were ice was stored imported from Norway. The building is situated at the start of the Harbour Road, Street-An-Nowan, Newlyn

The Cromdale came ashore at at Bass Point, after a one hundred and twenty-dour day journey from Taltal, Chile with a cargo of Nitrates. She was already a week overdue at Falmouth when, nearing the Lizard, she ran into dense fog on the evening of May…

The Queen Margaret was one of the only two British ships ever to carry three skysails and her reputation for speed, grace, and good treatment of crews was legendary among seafarers.

When she left Barry docks in July 1912 with a cargo of coal for…

The Queen Margaret was one of the only two British ships ever to carry three skysails and her reputation for speed, grace, and good treatment of crews was legendary among seafarers.

When she left Barry docks in July 1912 with a cargo of coal for…

The 3,534-ton Greek collier Othon Stathatos of Ithaki lurched into St. Ives bows awash after striking the Three Stone Oar in April 1913.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.34.

The 3,534-ton Greek collier Othon Stathatos of Ithaki lurched into St. Ives bows awash after striking the Three Stone Oar in April 1913.

Description from Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The North Coast (London: Pan Books LTD, 1970), p.34.

Barclays Bank on the left

People in the doorway of the shop. Was next door to the old post office building in Market Jew Street

Grandfather of John Richards who opened what is now Archie Brown's health food shop and cafe.