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Looking 'Outlong' towards Penlee Quarry

Lower Larrigan House, Penzance

Lower Larrigan House

Lower Larrigan House

Lower Larrigan House built 1814

Lower Market Jew Street Coach and horses Entrance to Congregational Chapel C Stokes Wholesale Haberdasher. Street hoarding advertising 'Follow the Fleet' Cinema in Causewayhead opened 1912

Lower Market Jew Street junction with Adelaide Street Motor Vehicle and Carriage with 4 horses.

Note large Cartwheels in the ditch

Lord Wenlock LT 1143 , Lowestoft fishing boat

Lowestoft Drifter crew about to be rescued by Penlee lifeboat 1930

Note large catch

Penlee Lifeboat helping a Loewstft Drifter aground off Eastern Green ,Penzance.

Lowestoft Drifter unmeshing Mackerel Newlyn Pier

Lowestoft Drifters at Newlyn. 1904..

Lowestoft boats moored at Newlyn in the 1930s. Steam drifters, they could be seen from Cornwall's southern cliffs as a long string of sparkling lights on the horizon when they fished the pilchard harvest from late August into October.

These boats became mine-sweepers during First and Second World Wars

These became Minesweepers druing both World Wars trawling for mines and sweeping the English Channel clear for larger ships.