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Penzance on a sunny day - 20th April, 2000

High St from Bread Street - 6pm-ish, 24Apr10

Central Penzance at 6.15pm-ish, 24th April, 2010

Free Sky TV, I suppose!

Penzance does have a Party Shop

Meeks moved from Market Place to this new unit in 2009

Exchange Mart was originally in High Street until this unit was built by the PHA.

Buttons and bows moved from Causewayhead to Bread Street in December 2009. This site has been rebuilt and previous shops were Days Gone By the record shop... but I can't remember the others sorry.

Foundation Stone - this was removed from the central section of the old Bodilly buildings, when recent demolition and re-construction took place; the stone has been placed in an old window opening. Some of these buildings in this complex pre-date 1837.

Next time you take a walk down Bread Street, take a look at The Borough Stores complex, not that it is now called that. This was a major centre for the supply to the public for centuries of basics for living. Bodilly's later built the Borough Store of 1874, which fronts the 1837 original...

Next time you take a walk down Bread Street, take a look at The Borough Stores complex, not that it is now called that. This was a major centre for the supply to the public for centuries of basics for living. In 1910, The Borough Store is now owned by J H Tonking; the drawing shows the...

Next time you take a walk down Bread Street, take a look at The Borough Stores complex, not that it is now called that. This was a major centre for the supply to the public for centuries of basics for living. Government requirements from around 1930 probably influenced the Tonking business...

Now Mount's Bay Wine. Bodilly Borough Stores, Bread Street. Messrs Bodilly and Co were Millers at Laregan Mills, which was sited where Lidls and Co-op are now. They began business around 1740 and had a new granite building built in 1874, fitted with modern millstones, it was bought in...