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SS Lyonnesse and HMS Argus in Penzance Floating Dock with Seized French Crabbers.
PEZPH : 1991.401
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Penzance Harbour looking towards Coulson's Granary.
PEZPH : 1991.441
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Wing Commander Guy Gibson reading a book on a lovely summer's day
PEZPH : 1991.445
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In April 1920 the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company acquired this ex fishery protection vessel the Argus or Argon renamed it RMS Peninnis and had it licensed to carry 210 passengers in the winter, 212 in the summer on the route from Penzance to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. On 23 April 1927 it was sold, went to Alderney and became the Ridunna.
PEZPH : 1991.448
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This was Prospect House, Barwinney Lane in Paul, the home of Miss Verenda, later Mrs Devereaux. It was bombed in World War Two and a bungalow erected on the site. There was a public house between the cottage with the two chimneys and the house. The pig on the back of the cart apppears to have been slaughtered.
PEZPH : 1991.499
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The 1023 County of Oxford crosses Hayle viaduct hauling, most probably, the 1625 stopping train from Truro to Penzance
PEZPH : 1991.223
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A Castle Class engine hauls the Paddington to Penzance sleeper train across the Hayle Viaduct
PEZPH : 1991.224
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formal staff photograph taken outside the front of Humphry Davy Boys' Grammar School Penzance
PEZPH : 1991.119
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The Princess Royal cuts the ribbon at the official opening of the Princess Royal Estate, Alverton, Penzance on 10 May 1953
PEZPH : 1990.972
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