'ON THIS DAY' FEATURES
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5 Features
Penzance Gazette: Read All About It!   (16 September 1839)

Another step up the ladder for Penzance as the one vital component lacking in the life of the town is addressed with the first edition of the Penzance Gazette. 

A Challenger to the Gazette   (20 July 1810)

The Royal Cornwall Gazette has had things it's own way for ten years now, but the launch of the West Briton is going to change all that.........

Another Penzance Newspaper   (18 July 1878)

140 years old today and still going strong(ish). The Cornishman was first published on 18th July 1878.

Past and present   (24 January 1921)

Open your copy of the Cornish Tidings, hot off the press. It’s 1921 now, and after the long war everything’s getting back to normal. Or what will pass for normal, in the coming age.

New Year, new newspaper   (3 January 1851)

A brand new newspaper for the brand new year. And what better title? How else to suggest the exhilarating pace of modern life, the new communications media that are changing the world?



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Penwith Local History Group

c/o Morrab Library
Morrab Gardens
Penzance, Cornwall
TR18 4DA






Penwith Local History Group, Penzance, Cornwall
Penwith Local History Group
Penzance, Cornwall



The Morrab Library showing the new extension
The Morrab Library showing the new extension.
Photo Glyn Richards



<br>Higher Bal, Levant Mine. Engine house for dual purpose pumping and winding engine. Stonecrop in foreground., Penwith Local History Group
This month's featured photograph:

Higher Bal, Levant Mine. Engine house for dual purpose pumping and winding engine. Stonecrop in foreground.

Photography Ted Mole

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<br>Coastline near Zennor., Penwith Local History Group<br>Chysauster looking east to Mulfra Hill., Penwith Local History Group<br>St Michael's Mount from the Coast Path by Penzance station., Penwith Local History Group<br>Marazion from St Michael's Mount., Penwith Local History Group<br>Greenburrow Engine House, Ding Dong Mine., Penwith Local History Group<br>Marazion from St Michael's Mount, Trencrom on skyline., Penwith Local History Group<br>Three of the Nine Maidens, Zennor Hill in background., Penwith Local History Group<br>Levant Mine from the south showing the leat in the foreground, left to right the calciner, stamps and compressor stacks and the whim and pumping engine houses in the centre with the Skip Shaft headframe., Penwith Local History Group<br>Causeway to St Michael's Mount on the ebb tide., Penwith Local History Group<br>Men-an-Tol., Penwith Local History Group<br>The Nine Maidens Stone Circle., Penwith Local History Group