This toilet was sold after standing empty for nearly 21 years. The inertia is Victorian if my memory serves me correctly but I doubt that it will stand as a public convenience much longer.
Here it is in 1975.....
http://picturepenzance.co.uk/gallery/time-past/p2226-old-king-coal.html
Although the JHB building had been damaged in WWII, the Public Lavatories survived.
The building is shown on the 1908 OS.
The JHB building was built around 1890, the two sections at the top of Albert Street date from post war repairs (c1948), with the bulk of alterations to the building made in the late 1960s, forming what was the showroom for bottled gas.
The 1890 revision of the 1875 OS does not show the Public Lavatories, or the curved building of JHB (J H Bennetts, shipping agents and coal merchants).
Not yet built by 1903 as this watersports picture showed.
http://picturepenzance.co.uk/gallery/malcolm-mccarthy-collection/p11136-albert-street-1903.html
Since it shows on the 1908 OS. It would be fair to say it was c1905.
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