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Situated in Narrows, used by local health authority at the time of an epidemic

Vaccination Court situated in the Old Narrows (Mousehole end), Newlyn Town. The name derives from the plague visitations in the mid 1800's.

Urn Watercolour negatives from the John Blight collection Sheet Two.

Note the Penlee lifeboat searching for survivors.

The Juan Ferrer of Valencia was a handsome, well-equipped motor coaster of nearly 700 tons, thrashing her way up towards Land's end on her usual run from her home port of Liverpool.

Owned by…

Mayor and Two Men unveiling Round Table Commemorative Stone at Eastern Green for railway and embankment improvement work.

A romantic Moonlight scene of Mount's Bay Luggers off Penzance with St. Michael's Mount in the background.
With a hand written message in ink to the reverse of the card to a recipient in Redruth

This is a frequent scene - fishermen, pilchards and nets draped over two oars for ease of handling. Two older men may have come down to help (...just a thought) other luggers in the distance. Just visible appears to be the lighthouse on the end of a…

Unmeshing mackerel, pilchards and herring at Newlyn

Named Lyonnesse on Card Index, Mrs Johns nee Pender says not so!

This is PZ123 Mayon Castle. Skipper, Dicky Worth.
In the 1930's there was such a glut of fish catches many were thrown back into the Harbour.