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Saturday, 28 April 2012
Council cutbacks leave Penzance promenade plastered with pebbles
Time are hard - three days since the Bay was lashed by a heavy ground sea and the council has still not seen fit to clear the promenade which is covered in pebbles - or parts of the path in front of Newlyn Green #slack #healthandsafety - let's hope they don't have too many accident claims...........
just about to enter the gaps, the beam trawler Billy Rowney.......
Troon registered scalloper Sea Lady, 18 dredges a side........
the other Sea Lady, 5 buffs a side........
one old timer.......
looking across to two old timers........
Sea lady in full, first of this year's visiting scallop boats to hit the port, a sign of the summer......
tomorrow's forecast will keep these guys in for a day or two......
Ivan Ellen, catches a little early morning sun.......
there's a fortune's worth of plastic in those bins.........
two more old timers in the port, well over 200 years between them.......
one of several gurdy/stripper combination rigs on the local boats........
come the stripper, the last thing a mackerel sees before hitting the deck of a punt.......
fiendish looking mascot........
only a few punts ventured forth this morning under those heavy skies.......
a man who works feathers......
brand new pots waiting to be wetted.......
frogmarched to reception, it's the annual free blood pressure test day courtesy
of the Rotary Club.......
another old timer heads for the fish market.......
with not much to show for a morning's work, the water is dirty after the mid-week blow, which the fish don't like, and they can't see those feathered hooks so clearly either......
even so, the fish has to go to the cold store.......
yet another old timer in the port.........
delving into the past in the Centre, Newlyn Archive holds an open day dedicated to Elizabeth Forbes and other members of the Newlyn Arts colony that thrived over 100 years ago........
around the time the Passmore Edwards gallery was opened - seen here, sketches for the huge copper plates that adorn the Orion Gallery's facade today.......
