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 Looking at Penzance
from the archive of
Penzance Old Cornwall Society, 1926 – 2006
compiled and edited by
Margaret Perry
120 Pages. Illustrated. ISBN 0-9534356-5-2
This book is available from bookshops RRP £9.95
or direct from Margaret Perry at 24 Charles Street, Newlyn, Penzance TR18 5QB.
Cheques should be made payable
to Penzance OCS Book A/C.
Looking at Penzance celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Penzance Old Cornwall Society. The book is a miscellany of articles, stories, poetry and local history drawn from the archive records of the Society. It contains an article Newlyn Speech by
Ben Batten and other items relating to the village.
It has 120 pages and over sixty illustrations ranging from sketches and early photographs to modern colour photography. Items include dialect stories and verse and an article on the origins of Golowan in Cornish (with an English translation).
Looking at Penzance has been compiled and edited by Penzance OCS member Margaret Perry. The author of A Brief History of Mousehole and a companion book on Newlyn, she has contributed to three publications of the Penwith Local History Group and edited Growing Up With Boats, the autobiography of William Stevenson of Newlyn.
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