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Cornish Fishwives
Blanche Courtney and Betsy Lanyon. They sold their fish in the Market Place in Penzance and door to door. And Blanche in particular, became a favourite model for the Newlyn School Painters.

Botallack Crowns Mine
On the hillside behind are Wheal Edward and West Wheal Owles

Cape Cornwall
St Just United Mine with Cape Cornwall in the background.

Newlyn Fisherwomen- Collecting the Catch
The second woman in from the right is Mary Wearne. As a young woman she often modelled for the Newlyn School painter Stanhope Forbes, and appeared in a number of his works including Hopeless Dawn and Last…

Mounts Bay
Newlyn fishing fleet and brigantine bound for Penzance.

Penzance Market Jew Street

Fishing boats at Penberth Cove

Lands End Midsummer's Eve

Lands End

Photographs showing two different views of Portscatho on the Roseland Peninsula

Photograph of Penberth Cove showing Inkwell pots fishing gear

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

Laying of memorial stone on 3rd July 1894 to mark the completion of the building of North Pier, Newlyn. The pier was opened by Thomas Bedford Bolitho

Lamorna Cove

St-Buryan

Penberth Cove

Prussia Cove

St-Michael's Mount

St-Michael's Mount

St-Michael's Mount