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The Promenade, Penzance
The Promenade, Penzance, showing The Queen's Hotel, pedestrians and St. Mary's Church.
Three Tuns at Chyandour
Three Tuns at Chyandour. Eastern Green, Penzance, with pedestrians walking and a horse cart.
West Cornwall Laundry
Female workers at the West Cornwall Laundry. This was a commercial laundry located near the Humphry Davy statue, operating from 1901 as the West Cornwall Steam Laundry and later renamed the Penzance Sanitary Steam Laundry. The laundry baskets are…
Cape Cornwall
View of Cape Cornwall, including Celtic Chapel and part of St Just Consols Mine to the left of the cape.
Man leaning against rock in foreground.
Man leaning against rock in foreground.
Busby, wrecked at Pendeen on June 23nd 1894.
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…
Busby, wrecked at Pendeen on June 23nd 1894.
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…
Enterprise, wrecked at Lelant, September 11th 1903
On September 11 1903, the Hayle Lifeboat crew had a dangerous and unnecessary trip out to the derelict Beaumaris schooner Enterprise.
The Enterprise [Enterprize] (1846) was bound from Charlestown, USA, to Manchester with a cargo of china clay when…
The Enterprise [Enterprize] (1846) was bound from Charlestown, USA, to Manchester with a cargo of china clay when…
Opening of GWR double decker bus service, Penzance station
Service from Marazion to Penzance and Newlyn. Registration AF65.
Lamorna Cove prior to harbour wall
Image of Lamorna with men using wooden crane to lift a rowing boat with quarry workings in background.
Photograph taken prior to the quay being built but possibly taken around the time of its construction as foundation stones may be seen in the…
Photograph taken prior to the quay being built but possibly taken around the time of its construction as foundation stones may be seen in the…
Egg and Spoon race
Egg and Spoon race
Cottage
Cottage with a mother sitting outside with a black and white cat at her feet.
Standing alongside are two daughters.
Standing alongside are two daughters.
Cottage Interior
Cottage Interior with artefacts shown as per daily use.
Family Group
Family Group showing mother with daughter, young son and elder son who is a member of the Salvation Army. He wears the hat and jumper of the organisation and holds a trumpet.
Three Ladies
Three Ladies standing in a garden setting.
Family group
Mother sitting holding young child. Her elder daughter stands to her side with her hand on mother's shoulder.
Working Party
Workers of various ages standing together, two are sitting. The man on the right sitting, is holding a dog whist the man standing on the right has a dog at his feet. Another dog sits at the left of the image.
Portrait of young child.
Portrait of young child who is wearing a white dress and bonnet. The child is standing in a field where there are a number of bushes or small trees. The child holds a flower in her right hand.
Woman sitting
Woman sitting, hedge in background.
Mother and Child
Mother sitting on a chair in a courtyard-garden setting. On her lap she holds a small child.
Probable date, 1895 - 1900.
Probable date, 1895 - 1900.
House Maids
Two House Maids standing in a garden setting. One holds a jug whilst the other holds a tray with a glass of possibly water.