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Badlly crazed neg. Loading Gear fro Stone Boats on Pier

Landscape People on Beach Houses

North and South piers have been built, tall ships are alongside piers before motors introduced. Houses in the foreground were demolished c 1939 under the Clearance Scheme. Replacement flats built in 1953/54. No houses built on the new road area.…

The Western Green in the foreground is the cleared site of Navy Inn homes demolished in 1939 (similar to JDC 365).
The square block house in the right bottom corner is the public air raid shelter created during WW2.
The large vessel in the harbour…

Over Street an Nowan, across the foreshore to Penzance. Before New Road was built (1883) from Wherrytown to Newlyn. Norton's Baths on the western promenade can be seen.

View fom Newlyn cottages Bowjey Hill and harbour across the bay from an early letter card see 1610. NO NEGATIVE OR PHOTOGRAPH PRESENT

Pavilion, Queens Hotel, Monument, Bathing Pool,

Taken from the South Pier

Before the harbour road was built in 1908. You can see the cart tracks heading along to Newlyn Slip which was the main thoroughfare, only accessible when the tide was out. Mounts Bay lugger aground on the beach. Fishing nets laid out to dry.