Market Square in the late 1940's

Market Square in the late 1940's

This BBC Turn Back Time film about Penzance features the markets. A weekly market day is a part of normal life in villages and town squares throughout Cornwall, as the Farmers' markets are today and will also be feature in Porthkeres


1940s: Street market with costermonger's barrow in the foreground.




Photo © Antony Ewart Smith (cc-by-sa/2.0)

Charlestown Harbour

Dock at Charlestown Photo © Richard Johns (cc-by-sa/2.0)

Charlestown Harbour Photo © Pam Brophy (cc-by-sa/2.0)

A corsair will be standing in the dock at Porthkeres. Could she have brought in contraband from the continent?

Discovering Old Cornwall - Charlestown

St. Austell railway station

St. Austell railway station

Porthkeres will connect to the town of St. Elys and a station not unlike St. Austell.

Photo © Phil Williams (cc-by-sa/2.0)

Charlestown Chapel

Charlestown Chapel

Close to the dockside in Porthkeres is a chapel not unlike this one in Charlestown.

Photo © Anthony Vosper (cc-by-sa/2.0)