St Just in Penwith Gallery

A donkey and cart in Market Square, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Early 1900s

Market Square (or Commercial Square) with the Wellington Hotel in the background. There are four carts in the picture. The horse drawn cart has a boy driver, while on the donkey cart the young boy has the reins in his hands, but is being supervised by the old man wearing an old fashioned patched farm smock. The young girl on the left is wearing a white smock over her clothes and shading her eyes from the sun to look at something across the square. What looks like a market stall is behind the cart with wicker baskets as it's load. Part of the A.K. Hamilton Jenkin collection. Photographer: Unknown

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Market Square, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Around 1910

An almost deserted view of Market Square (or Commercial Square) at St Just in Penwith. It shows J. Matthews shop, the King's Arms, the Wellington Hotel and St Just Church. Two girls are standing in front of the shop on the left hand side and there is a policeman standing with another man in the doorway of the Wellington Hotel. Alfred Oats was the innkeeper at The Kings Arms from 1906-1919 according to Kelly's Directory. Part of the A.K. Hamilton Jenkin collection. Photographer: Unknown

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Cape Cornwall from Kenidjack, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. 1898

Cape Cornwall from the north side at Kenidjack Cliff with the remains of St Just United mine on the far left in the distance. The chimney stack of Cape Cornwall Mine can be seen on the headland with the Brisons to the right hand side. Cape Cornwall marks the point where the Atlantic currents divide. Some of the water flows north into the Bristol Channel and the Irish Sea with the rest becoming the English Channel. Photographer: Herbert Hughes

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