Penzance view from Newlyn.

If correct the slip is to the right and the site is protected by the south pier. Remember reading in the Cornishman (100 years ago sect) couple of years ago. A great storm came from the east and ripped all the sand and gravel away from the market site bellow the Fishermans. The next day a young scallywag picked up many penny s and also a half sovereign lying on the surface or something along those lines.

This is nowhere near the South Pier (that has a lighthouse). I have a lot of alignments to check and calculations to do; I also am compiling a calendar of storms that have affected the seafront of Penzance and Newlyn. I need to check more than twenty other photographs and a number of maps, as well as an admiralty chart. There are features on the Promenade / Esplanade that need to be checked, as well as making calculations as far as height is concerned. It will take me a day or so.

I am guessing it was somewhere around where the present fish market is. I think the stream comes out near the top of the shot, where there is a gap between the rocks right up to the sea. The North Pier is now alongside this stream so that may give a rough indicator? Just a guess anyway!

See what your saying Treeve, i was miles out . Think your near Denanmoor. The 1891 map shows a track going across shore at the present road fish market site, it then cuts back in tight to land and tight to a building on the shore somewhere in the old ice works to co op area. Think the Tolcarne stream is coming out half way up the wall. Sure Treeve will pinpoint it.

For location, showing the wall pictured still standing. please see my last post entitled Location of old pic penzance from Newlyn Just looked up the North Pier Newlyn (not shown in pic) which was completed in 1886, so guessing took a couple of years to build, pre 1884?

This photograph taken in early 1885; the North Pier was commenced June 1885, completed April 1887, with later work and extensions.
It seems to me this is a deliberate record of what was.

It seems to me this photo is about where the above was taken. Difficult to tell though, as the only reference point is the old wall to the left.

How things have changed