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foundations of Roman villa

Close up of floor tesserae

foundations of Roman villa

The Old Market House Penzance which was taken down in 1836.

A local crowd enjoying the visiting fair held in October around the village Paul Feast time. The water wheel of the once-important Tolcarne Mill can be seen on the right.

Gibsons 'Mounts Bay Studio' on The Terrace, Market Jew St, Penzance.

The copy in our collection is a photocopy of an original.

Group of cyclists in front of the house

Postcard. 138mm x 87mm. No stamp, postmark, message or address. Back has been scribbled over. No publisher information but similar to Gibson and sons card JDCP 477. Sepia photograph of stranding at Long Rock on July 1st 1911. Sightseers and officials…

Postcard. 138mm x 90mm. No postmark, stamp, address or message. Stamped into the image are the words Gibson and Sons, Penzance and Scilly Isles. Sepia photo of whales stranded at Long Rock on July 1st 1911. In the background can be made out Penzance…

Result damage from gale Penzance old promenade - Bath house which was later made into Band-Stand Gibson. 1880.. group of males

The Jeune Hortense aground Mounts Bay near Penzance. Lifeboat retuning to shore.

On December 31st, 1919, the British steel cargo ship RAVENSHOE, built in 1899 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Orders & Handford S.S. Co. Ltd., on voyage from Lisboa to Barry in ballast, was wrecked in a…

Built by Harvey's of Hayle in 1875 for West Cornwall Steamship Co. Worked between Scilly and Penzance and also on pleasure cruises. It was on one of those cruises that she ran aground in Lamorna harbour after grazing a reef. Refloated and repaired…

The Great Storm Penzance Promenade

This view across the Abbey Basin shows the Abbey Slip on top right. This was prior to the present road layout and the bridge by the current dry dock.

Coasters or Fishing boats

Storm Damage to Newlyn Road

Penzance floating dock pictures in March 1891, after the collapse of the newly-installed gates during the great blizzard of that year. The harbour was built in 1884. St Mary's Church can be seen in the background.

The entrance to the Tresco Abbey Gardens on the Isles of Scilly, showing part of the Valhalla collection of figureheads from vessels wrecked on and around the islands. Gibson Penzance is printed on the bottom right hand corner.