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Both harbour walls are existing which indicates the date is at least 1895 but before 1905 when the harbour road was built. The harbour is full of sailing vessels.
Top, small white building, top central is Penzer House. The large row below, top…

Showing the Old Pier and Green Rocks. The construction work had just started on the South Pier (built 1885).
The chimney stack of the Tolvadden Copper mine can just be seen in the left of the picture.
Building just right is the early Ice…

In view is the fish market and ice works. The vessel under the cover is the lifeboat "Elizabeth & Blanche' when she was stationed under the cliff from 1909-1913; 1913 she was moved to the new station house at Penlee near Mousehole. This section of…

View from the old Beef Carcass Market looking towards the Meat Market " Edward Richards Album p30. Now Simpsons Shop and Arcade showing Borough Coat of Arms John the Baptists Head on

The view is across to Street-an-Nowan to the fish market, the harbour offices and the Tolcarne behind. The end of the Old (Medieval) Pier can be seen in the bottom right.

The buildings are still there but the left hand building is the Norway Ice Store, and has since been built This view would now be totally obscured by the Newlyn Fish Market and later still by construction all around the Mary Williams Pier…

The lower part of Newlyn, ie., Street-an-Nowan, is seen in the background. The newly completed North Pier (Victoria Pier) is in the right foreground. This pier was later widened along its length. A Mount's Bay lugger is attempting to leave the…

One of the Stevenson & Sons 75 foot trawlers on the repair slip. A stone 'coaster' waiting in the bay. Gill nets drying on the railings at the roadside, Fore Street, Newlyn.

Looking towards the Old (Medieval) Pier and the completed piers to Street-an-Nowan and Tolcarne. The Elizabeth and Blanch lifeboat is in the foreground and was stationed here from 1909-1913. Harbour has been constructed (1908).

Green Rocks and the South at low tide, with fish jousters (sellers) waiting on the beach for fish to be landed from vessels anchored offshore.
There is a tall sailing ship along side the Old Pier.
Vessels can just be seen to the right anchored in…

View from St. Martins. A possible telegraph station is visible, although the photo is badly blurred.

The new harbour road built in 1908 will extend from left to right from the bottom of Newlyn Slip to below Newlyn Town (out of picture) to the Norway Ice store building, far left. Just above the Ice Store building is the Newlyn Trinity Methodist…