B/w print photograph

Acc.no: PEZPH : 1993.43.147

Identification

Item: A barque in Penzance's floating dock

Description: Penzance Harbour Scene (late 1880s) - A deep loaded, unidentified, barque in Penzance Floating Dock. Thought to be one of the many vessels bringing grain to Penzance for the local flour and cattle-feed mills – Branwell’s, Bodilly’s, or Coulson’s. The dock-side building to the left of her mizen mast was the ‘transit-shed,’ used by Bazeley’s Little Western Steamship Company’s for holding cargo for or from their coastal liners – taken over by Coast Lines in the early 1920s. Between the fore and main masts of the barque, can be seen the Penzance Custom House, with St. Mary’s church on the sky-line above. The dock-side buildings to the right being part of Mathews’ Sail Loft and Dry Dock premises – later N. Holman & Sons.

Condition: Good - a large spot of discolouration to the bottom right-hand side. A very small amount of foxing to the top of the photograph.

Description

Height: 112mm

Width: 155mm

Material: Photograph

Production

Method: Printed

Date: 1880

Person: Branwell, John

Place: Penlee House

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