Penzance – Cornwall in Colours

Monochrome Monday

The Art Deco style Yacht was built in 1936 and designed by Colin Minors Drewitt, the year after the open-air swimming pool, the Jubilee Pool, opened. It was designed to resemble the bridge of a luxury cruise liner.

Monochrome Monday

Jubilee Pool

The Jubilee Pool was designed in the early 1930s by Captain F Latham, the Borough Engineer. The pool was opened with great celebration in May 1935, the year of King George V’s Silver Jubilee. The sea water pool was built on the Battery Rocks which were used as a natural bathing spot. It is a…

Saturday Sketches Returns #24

During the winter I take a break from the Six on Saturday meme as there is not much to record in my garden over the next few months (Plus it is too wet and cold to go out there). Instead I shall be posting photos that have been taken on my phone and edited with…

Almost a Winter’s Tale

Strictly speaking not quite winter as this was on 30 November, but it felt wintry in the cold, but fortunately sunny day. A visit to our local town Penzance was an excuse to go out for lunch. We were lucky enough to find free parking along the promenade, a rare event. On arriving at the…

Bittersweet

Nadelik Lowen! Or to put it in English “MERRY Christmas”. To all my fellow bloggers I send you greetings of the season. I thank each and every one of you who takes the time to visit my blog(s) and like / leave a comment. I really do appreciate it. You are what make blogging such…

Saturday Sketches #5

The Ross Bridge, Penzance – Sepia Pencil The original swing bridge was built in 1881 from an old railway turntable to give access to the Abbey Basin and dry dock. This bridge was replaced in 1980, constructed by local Cornish company Visick’s Foundry. The bridge, which opens to allow boats into the dry dock approximately…

Saturday Sketches #4

Dry Dock and Abbey Warehouse, Penzance – coloured Pencil A large network of smugglers’ tunnels runs beneath Penzance, spanning out from the harbour to the Abbey Warehouse, the Turks Head and Admiral Benbow pubs on Chapel Street, and to Causewayhead and Market Jew Street.