Area is the Strand, Street-an-Nowan, showing a weigh bridge far left bottom, now discontinued. Buildings left to right are part of Chigwins Grocery Shop (now the Chinese takeaway), then The Swordfish Inn (previously the Union), then the Newlyn Co-op…
Serena photographed women, famous, at work and play and generally going about their business. These photographs are taken around the streets of Islington where Serena lived. A snapshot of the lives of women in the 1970s.
Serena photographed women, famous, at work and play and generally going about their business. These photographs are taken around the streets of Islington where Serena lived. A snapshot of the lives of women in the 1970s.
Newlyn fishwives and their wicker baskets, called Cowals, congregate near the entrance to the North Pier near the Newlyn Post Office (then the Coastguard building also now at the back of the Newlyn harbour offices).
Copy of a coloured painting.
Fish sale, laid out on the floor, before Newlyn fish market was built. Build to the right is the Coastguards store (later, Newlyn Post Office). The Union Inn has the sign on top of the building; this later became The…
This institute is also known as the Fishermen's Mission.
Miss Nora Bolitho of Laregan, Penzance, who built the Institute in 1911 and until her death in 1929, ever sought the welfare of all Fishermen sailing out of Newlyn. The War Memorial was…
Serena photographed women, famous, at work and play and generally going about their business. These photographs are taken around the streets of Islington where Serena lived. A snapshot of the lives of women in the 1970s.