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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

General View

General view

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

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

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

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

A general view of the Gardens with Newlyn in the background

View from the Morrab Road entrance

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

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

Cornwall Agrcultual show . Possibly near St.Ives.

Plymouth fishing boats in the old harbour , Newlyn, Cornwall

St Anthony's Gardens on the Promemade , Penzance.

Few people now can recall the annual visit of Henry Jones & Sons Fair to Halsetown where they built up in a crowded meadow among the cabbages and rows of peas, some 700 feet above St Ives and in the shadow of Rosewall (locally called Buttermilk)…

The building became the Bolitho School. It failed as a hotel early on.
Hand written message to the reverse of the card