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Penberth Cove

St-Buryan

Lamorna Cove

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

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…

Photograph of Penberth Cove showing Inkwell pots fishing gear

Photographs showing two different views of Portscatho on the Roseland Peninsula

Lands End

Lands End Midsummer's Eve

Fishing boats at Penberth Cove

Penzance Market Jew Street

Mounts Bay
Newlyn fishing fleet and brigantine bound for Penzance.

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…

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

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

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.

Penzance Harbour. Cornish Luggers in full sail are shown leaving the harbour. Ross Bridge in the middle ground has a number of small gigs tied to the railings.

Fishing Boat PZ 523 Kimbill moored in Newlyn Harbour

Fishing Trawler PZ 1865 Dew-Genen-Ny alongside the quay in Penzance Floating Dock behind the green sheds.

Fishing boats in Newlyn Harbour
PZ 576 Boy Gary in the foreground