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Shop at Perranuthnoe

Shop at Perranuthnoe

Huge Lamps were lit by Gas - Electricity was not available until May1912 in Penzance. Broken - not on main list

Shop fire on Market Jew Street terrace Grenfells (footwear) and Marchants (Umbrella and Trunk Makers). Crowd of onlookers

Shop Front, Grocer/ Tea Dealer, Pearce Street, Clare Street.
Bernice Pearce mentioned on slide.

Includes cafe, street scene, grocers, customers & shop keepers

Kistler 's shop later Lanyon's, Causewayhead . Lady , Man and dog standing in the doorway.
The man is possibly George Kistler an immigrant from Germany. Watchmaker & Jeweller.
He went through several patches of anti German attitudes.
His son…

Shop window of the charity shop for the Cancer Research Campaign, opened in Causewayhead in 1993

Shops Chirgwins with Ivy Rogers and Mr Bowry at the provisions Counter.

The Business on right of photograph was a Photographers run by Mrs Trembarth, Grocery Shop in middle now demolished the other building was a Doctors Surgery

Located at the corner of Wood Street, formerly the The Central hotel, later Jacob's General Outfitters

Dresssed overall for royal occasion. If it is 1903, it could be a celebration of 40 years of marriage of Edward and Alexandra. He died in 1910.
Clark's Library, Chirgwin's, A H Michell & Sons, drapers. Site became Timothy Whites, then became Top…

The image features Smith's Gents Outfitters premises close by to the Market House and the Humphry Davy statue

SEACOM 2 Shore and operation at Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong.
This picture shows the end of the trench showing the entry into the manhole. One cable already fitted with articulated piping. Ships crew left-right: Honorio Perez and Angel Chapelo.

During the second week in May, CS Recorder (3,349 tons) laid shore-ends at Jesselton of the Jesselton - Singapore section of the South East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable (SEACOM).
This picture shows: passing the Jesselton-Singapore shore end…

Shore-end of a cable being floated in on drums at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno. Ship in the distance and three men on the shore, two of whom are digging.

The shore-end of a cable being landed at Porthcurno (Cable & Wireless), shown with line of men digging trench on shore.