B/w print
Acc.no: PEZPH : 1989.1082
Identification
Item: Market Jew Street in the 1880s
Description: Left to right: Post Office built in 1863; Star Inn; Symons is on the corner of New Street; York and Baird 1881-1896; Market House with a pennant flying above the dome; Humphry Davy statue; Oppenheim's Furniture Market with probably the oldest chimney in Penzance in 2013; Henry Joseph'e pawnbrokers which soon became the premises for the Gibson family photography business; James Henry Thomas the Tobacconist; Samuel Mears and Sons, boot manufacturers; Bolitho Bank built in 1834. The absence of traffic, including the horse buses would suggest this is a sunny Sunday morning. Gas lamps were lit at dusk.
Condition: Good -
Description
Height: Mm
Width: Mm
Material: Photograph
Production
Method: Printed
Person: Gibson
Place: Penzance Promenade
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