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Bell Tower Cupola Behind the Abbey with weather vane.

Market House Dome

Market House at Night showing Humphry Davy statue with two children climbing on the plinth. Advertising sign for Abbey Upholstering Ltd. and a milk sign. Also posters for dances at the Winter Gardens.

Market House at Night

Man with dog standing by a yacht named Phoebe.
Location possibly Percuil river by St Mawes.

Solent Sunbeam class yachts racing in the Falmouth harbour area.

Gentleman wearing a white suit with a young deer being fed.

After the fire. Remains of buildings on the Terrace Penzance opposite the W.H Smith/TG Jones shop..Marchants shop can be seen and traded until 1970's. Above can still be seen the blackened stone.

Unknown Spinster

Historical records indicate that J. D. Balkwill was an itinerant preacher for the Bible Christians, a Methodist denomination heavily active in Devon and Cornwall during the 19th and early 20th centuries. [1]…

Unknown family with spinster shown on PC.366

Frank Searle & Nicholls

Newlyn harbour with a naval fleet review, this was either August 1904 or The Great Naval Review July 1910.

Three masted sailing ship.

Market Jew Street, street thronged with people.

Home and Colonial shop on the Terrace in Penzance.

A small photograph showing Sergeant Don M Graham "Jock"

On the back is written:
"Sergt; Don M Graham otherwise "Jock"
Save this for me "

A postcard from Fred Phillips' war album, assembled from postcards and photos he collected during his service in Palestine and Egypt during WW1.

This postcard shows Corporal George Edgar Sharples who was a member of a Trench Mortar Battery in the…

A postcard from Fred Phillips' war album, assembled from postcards and photos he collected during his service in Palestine and Egypt during WW1.

On the back is written:
"From Ivy to Fred
wishing you a happy new year."

Underneath the postcard…

Group of ladies at an event at the Telephone Exchange