Sepia albumen print
Acc.no: PEZPH : 2016.50.95
Identification
Item: Workmen on the Promenade at Penzance.
Description: A posed photograph of workmen laying slabs on Penzance promenade with the laid slabs in the foreground, Cafe Marina and 'Dingley's' Hotel in the background and Newlyn on the horizon. The promenade had been built in 1844 but the tarmac used was ruining people's clothes and footwear and so the Western end of the promenade was laid with this pink concrete paving supplied by James Runnalls of Penlee Quarry, when the storms of 1895 had largely destroyed the previous surface. William Julyan would have been Mayor of Penzance in 1897 when the slabs were laid. Mayor Alderman WJ Bazeley JP and Councillors re-opened the Promenade officially by unveiling the "Compass Stone" (the last slab laid). The event was to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.
Condition: Good
Description
Material: Photographic paper
Production
Method: Printed
Category: Photography
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