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FISH.PC.006.tif
Three Newlyn Fisherfolk in traditional garb.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Lincoln

FISH.PC.004.tif
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

FISH.PC.003.tif
Women landing Fish, Newlyn, from Fishing Boat PZ10

FISH.PC.002.tif
A Fish sale in the Market located in Street-an-Nowan, Newlyn

FISH.PC.001.tif
Packing fish for R. Sullivan

COLLINS.121B.tif
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.…

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COLLINS.117B.tif
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…

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WATERSc 31QG 115.tif

GARD.PC.022.tif
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

GARD.PC.021.tif
General view.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in New Cross, London

GARD.PC.020.tif
General View

GARD.PC.019.tif
General view

GARD.PC.018.tif
View of the Abbey Ruins, with a Cornish Palm tree in Flower

GARD.PC.017.tif
General view of the gardens, situated on Tresco, Isles of Scilly

GARD.PC.016.tif
The Bolitho Gardens, situated at the Newlyn end of Penzance, with St. Michael's Mount in the background.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Farnham, Surrey

GARD.PC.015.tif
View of the gardens situated at the Western end of Penzance on the main road to Newlyn.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in London

GARD.PC.014.tif
A general view of the Gardens with Newlyn in the background

GARD.PC.013.tif
View from the Morrab Road entrance

GARD.PC.012.tif
General view showing the Boer War Memorial with the tower of St. Mary's Church in the background.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Gulval

GARD.PC.011.tif
View from the Bottom Gate entrance in Morrab Road.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Tuckingmill, Camborne
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