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Stand of trees - Building in foreground

Street View Tolver Road Penzance

View looking down Market Jew Street. On the left. Lloyds Bank / Market House, on the right Symons chemist, Peasgoods for many years and now a charity shop. Below is the Star Inn and what is now COOP , smaller shops and the large Post Office Building.

Greenmarket Penzance looking towards Lloyds bank.The Public benefit Boot Company named building was designed by Oliver Coldwell in 1905 walls contain much red and cream terracotta. The building still stands with the shops having changed much over the…

Chapel Street looking towards St Mary's Church Penzance

Rosevean Road Penzance with Roman Catholic Church in middle ground.
Grid reference, SW 4722 3066
For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO57009&resourceID=1020

Market Place looking down towards The Terrace. Lloyds Bank on the right and what is now Simpson's Outfitters on the left .

Horse drawn vehicle coming up Market Jew Street opposite the Star Inn.

Looking up Morrab Road towards Criddle and Smith now Alfred Smith and the Western Hotel which is now the Jobcentre part of DWP. In between these two buildings is Clarence Street

Looking up Morrab Road towards Criddle and Smith now Alfred Smith and the Western Hotel which is now the Jobcentre part of DWP. In between these two buildings is Clarence Street.The shop with the Blind down is now Morrab Studio.

Market House Penzance. Now a branch of Lloyds Bank, view from bottom of Causewayhead.

Alverton Street looking into the Greenmarket, NJ Hall on the right and Markethouse in the distance. Bunting flying

The vessel looks like a visiting East Coast drifter (e.g. from Lowestoft, etc.). Some of the catch is still enmeshed in the hold and will take a while to unmesh. Onlookers are on the North Pier. The horse cart and wicker baskets help to date this…

View is across the harbour to the now completed harbour road (1908). The building, right central, with all the windows is the so-called Industrial Building.

The tide is low and there is a large, tall schooner alongside the pier. The caption on the photo is wrong; it should read Street-an-Nowan.

Plan of Penzance Harbour

House in Tolver Place Penzance.
Banner outside has V R and side image of Queen Victoria. Date unknown but is probably celebrating the Diamond Jubilee on 22nd June 1897

Ice Cream Seller at Fairground

Swing Boats at Fairground
Children enjoying themselves