The Ritz Penzance

Not originally a club. The Ritz Penzance started off life as a cinema but as more and more people turned to TV for entertainment the cinema closed. Various entertainments were experimented but the only real successful alternative to closure was bingo. Brought by Mecca and later sold in the 1980s to Top Rank the hall was in good use. Later in the late 80s the hall was brought by the management and run as a local bingo business. Eventually the business closed and the hall was empty. A local group formed a charity to save the Ritz and various live acts have stared there since. The hall is owned now by Merlin Leisure.

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Archive Collection 5K
1. Old Penzance 898
  1. Penzance Central 713
    1. 1800s 72
    2. 1900s 26
    3. 1910s 36
    4. 1920s 36
    5. 1930s 68
    6. 1940s 43
    7. 1950s 76
    8. 1960s 60
    9. 1970s 55
    10. 1980s 152
    11. 1990s 64
    12. Date unknown 15
    13. Scan Day 10
  2. Penzance North 37
    1. 1900s 1
    2. 1940s 6
    3. 1950s 1
    4. 1980s 6
    5. 1990s 7
    6. 2000s 16
  3. Penzance East 53
    1. 1800s 1
    2. 1900's 3
    3. 1920s 3
    4. 1940s 8
    5. 1970s 3
    6. 1980s 22
    7. 1990s 13
  4. Penzance West 95
    1. 1800s 13
    2. 1900's 27
    3. 1920s 9
    4. 1930s 2
    5. 1950s 3
    6. 1960's 8
    7. 1970s 2
    8. 1980's 7
    9. 1990s 8
    10. 2010 3
    11. Wherry Town 11
    12. Date unknown 2
2. Housing Estates 89
  1. Penalverne Estate 16
    1. 1940s 2
    2. 1950s 4
    3. 1970s 7
    4. 1980s 1
    5. 1990s 2
  2. Treneere Estate 72
    1. 1930s 40s 50s and 60s 9
    2. Treneere Manor 34
    3. 1970s 2
    4. 1980s 13
    5. 1990s 13
    6. 00's 1
  3. Gwavas Eastate 0
    1. Gwavas Estate 0
  4. Alverton Estate 1
3. Schools 1K
  1. St Marys C of E 2
  2. Lescudjack School Penzance 477
    1. Sport 39
    2. 1920s 12
    3. 1940s 2
    4. 1950s 36
    5. 1960s 55
    6. 1970s 86
    7. 1980s 95
    8. 1990s 27
    9. Unknown 7
    10. Staff 15
    11. School plays 63
    12. Documentation 20
    13. Lescudjack School reunion 2
    14. Demolition 18
  3. PCS/HDGS 692
    1. Pre 1945 50
    2. 1945 5
    3. 1946 5
    4. 1947 13
    5. 1948 16
    6. 1949 9
    7. 1950 15
    8. 1951 18
    9. 1952 13
    10. 1953 13
    11. 1954 12
    12. 1955 17
    13. 1956 17
    14. 1957 8
    15. 1958 7
    16. 1959 18
    17. 1960 16
    18. 1961 25
    19. 1962 42
    20. 1963 27
    21. 1964 26
    22. 1965 13
    23. 1966 19
    24. 1967 25
    25. 1968 35
    26. 1969 10
    27. 1970 5
    28. 1971 7
    29. 1972 2
    30. 1973 7
    31. 1974 6
    32. 1975 3
    33. 1976 1
    34. 1977 3
    35. 1978 9
    36. 1979 8
    37. 1980 0
    38. Reunions 38
    39. Staff 28
    40. Buildings 43
    41. Arts, Crafts & Science 34
    42. Unidentified 2
    43. Miscellaneous 22
  4. Mounts Bay 66
    1. 1950s 1
    2. 1980s 2
    3. Anniversary 62
  5. St Marys RC School 9
    1. 1950s 1
    2. 1970s 6
    3. 1980s 1
    4. 1990s 1
  6. Alverton County Primary 7
    1. 1960s 7
  7. St Pauls School 13
  8. Humphry Davy Comprehensive School 2
    1. 1980s 2
  9. County School for Girls 13
  10. Church High 10
4. Services 103
  1. Hospitals 58
    1. Date unknown 3
    2. 1950s 3
    3. 1980s 2
    4. Open day 2010 49
  2. Railway 29
    1. 1800 to 1900s 2
    2. 1940s 1
    3. 1950s 7
    4. 1960s 6
    5. 1970s 5
    6. 1980s 7
    7. 1990s 1
  3. Taylors Garage 16
    1. 1980s 16
5. Local Festivities 1K
  1. Golowan Festival 447
    1. Mazey Day 1991 25
    2. Mazey Day 1994 49
    3. Mazey Day 1996 12
    4. Mazey Day 2000 4
    5. Mazey Day 2001 1
    6. Mazey Day 2002 7
    7. Mazey Day 2003 12
    8. Mazey Day 2005 9
    9. Mazey Day 2008 73
    10. Mazey Day 2009 57
    11. Mazey Day 2010 75
    12. Mazey Day 2011 79
    13. Mazey Day 2012 44
  2. St Pirans day 2008 44
  3. Mazey day (scheduled) 0
    1. 2000 (scheduled) 0
    2. 2010 (scheduled) 0
    3. 2008 (scheduled) 0
  4. Tesco Pirate Appeal 12
  5. Carnivals 20
    1. 1980s 20
  6. Pirates on the prom 127
  7. Easter egg hunt 14
  8. Newlyn Raft Race 56
    1. Newlyn Raft Race 2008 41
    2. Newlyn Raft Race 2009 15
  9. The fair 84
    1. 1970s 3
    2. 1980s 15
    3. 2003 43
    4. 2004 20
  10. Model Boats Show 20
  11. Other events 183
    1. IoS sub transformer 2
      1. IoS Subtransformer 2
    2. custom vehicles 5
    3. St Buryan Rally 9
    4. Lafrowda 148
    5. Speed boat racing 1
    6. St Ivel Churn Race 10
    7. One off events 8
6. Construction/Refits 293
  1. Treneere re-fit 20
  2. Branwell House 11
  3. Penzance bypass 36
  4. St John's Courts 4
  5. Wharfside Shopping Centre 26
  6. Building Lidl 1
  7. Building Safeway 3
  8. Building Tesco 3
  9. Ocen Blue 18
  10. Penwith college 3
  11. Abbey warehouse 10
  12. Hospital extension 6
  13. Ross Bridge 28
  14. Co Op Wherry Town Refit 15
  15. Building Leskinick House 15
  16. Davy Wine Shop 4
  17. Sewerage works 7
  18. Treneere extension 26
  19. Penzance Public Library in Morrab Road sell off 10
  20. The Waterfront 5
  21. Building Sainsburys 12
  22. Costa and Pets at Home Penzance 4
  23. Retirement flats Wharfside 11
  24. Building a new Lidl 5
  25. Miscellaneous builds 9
7. Ship Loss 2
  1. White Funnel Fleet 2
8. Storms 55
  1. 1962 19
  2. 1986 19
  3. 1987 3
  4. 2006 14
9. Sport 27
  1. Swimming 13
    1. 1930s 7
    2. 1950s 5
    3. 1970s 1
  2. Football 14
    1. 1940s 1
    2. 1950s 8
    3. 1960s 3
    4. 1980s 1
    5. 1990s 1
10. Clubs Pubs Bands 566
  1. Brunos Bar 11
  2. The Ritz Penzance 112
    1. Ritz Entertainment 94
      1. Bedlam 2011 36
      2. NYE Love Riot 44
  3. High Voltage 16
  4. Club 2K 56
  5. Demelza's 20
  6. The Barn Club 128
    1. 1980s and 1990s 73
    2. Barn Club Reunion 20
    3. Groups 12
    4. The Barn Club Fire 23
  7. The Zero club Penzance 14
  8. Regent 43
  9. Sound Night Club 61
  10. Gulval Meadery - Mill House Cafe 30
  11. Club PZ1 53
    1. All over! 53
  12. The Vault Bar Construction 21
  13. Ricky and the Layabouts 1
11. Local characters 71
  1. Penzance Buskers 23
  2. Local Penzance characters 48
12. Shops and pubs 218
  1. Shops 181
  2. Pubs 37
13. Trereife Manor 3
14. Other area's 236
  1. Hayle 4
  2. Paul Village 22
  3. Mousehole 36
  4. St Ives area 42
  5. Crowlas 1900-1950 3
  6. St Just 101
    1. St Just 1980s 1
    2. St Just 00s 79
  7. Madron 20
  8. Isles of Scilly 6
15. Janners 104
  1. Janners in Oman (southwest Asia) 104
    1. Our home in Turkey 15
    2. Stuff 24
16. Harbours 110
  1. Newlyn Harbour 27
    1. Gallery one 6
  2. Penzance Harbour 50
  3. St Ives Harbour 32
    1. Lifeboat 4
    2. Gallery one 7
    3. A walk around the harbour 17
  4. Sennen Harbour 1
    1. Gallery one 1
17. Help needed identifying these pictures 19
18. Member's Categories 170
Modern and Creative 262
1. Portraits and Modelling 18
2. Landscapes 3
3. Seascapes 23
4. Creative 7
5. Still 5
6. Wildlife 206
Miscellaneous 375
1. Christmas 108
  1. General Christmas pix 60
  2. Christmas decorations 13
  3. Christmas Penwith 35
2. Pavement Pirates 104
3. The fun section 163
  1. Sweets when we were kids! 39
  2. Pun area 57
  3. Bizarre pictures 59
  4. Mystery objects 6
Photo Competitions 510
1. Past contests 510
  1. CHRISTMAS THEME COMPETITION 2010 3
  2. Night time 12
  3. Anything goes 13
  4. Christmas 12
  5. Fire 13
  6. Autumn 23
  7. Food and drink 20
  8. Emotions 11
  9. Animals 38
  10. Summer Life 17
  11. Musical instrument 28
  12. The human body 22
  13. Water 44
  14. Hearts and Flowers 14
  15. Monochrome 37
  16. Christmas 27
  17. Snapshot 31
  18. Still Life 30
  19. Macro month 35
  20. Parklife 9
  21. Street Life 12
  22. Golowan 11
  23. May the force be with you 11
  24. April photo contest paper scissors rock 8
  25. March Photo Competition "Proper Job" 9
  26. February competition "TROUBLED YOUTH" 11
  27. January 2011 Competition photographs 9
Vessel 119
1. Rowing vessel 33
  1. Gallery one 12
2. Sail vessel 9
  1. Gallery one 5
  2. Sir Winston Churchill 4
3. Steam vessel 3
  1. Gallery one 3
4. Fishing vessel 31
  1. Ripple 28
  2. Gallery one 3
5. Motor vessel 40
  1. Gallery one 39
6. Other vessels 3
  1. Vessels 3

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Albert Terrace lions

This is a photo of my family home, anyone know why lions? There is also a crown in the garden, other lions in the garden and a man’s head over the attic bedroom.
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