Newlyn, Penzance, 1889. A postcard in the collection of Simon Cooke. Newlyn is just to the south-west of Penzance, and only about a mile away from it. At this time if felt more accessible than it had in the past: "The road between Newlyn and Penzance, which had long been unsafe and unsatisfactory, having been practically destroyed by the storms of 1881, a new road and bridge was constructed and opened in 1883, which has shortened the distance between Penzance and Newlyn," writes the then Vicar of Newlyn St Peter, Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma in 1884. A busy fishing village, it became a popular haunt of artists who flocked to Cornwall for its picturesque scenery and the quality of its light: The Newlyn School was the best known of the artistic colonies in the area.
This Tuck's postcard, painted by Henry B. Wimbush (1858–1943), gives the more chocolate-box view of the harbour and little winding streets of the village that people had come to associate with Newlyn. Arthus Salmon felt that "[t]he place deserves its reputation. The harbour, with its two protecting piers, is very commodious for the small craft that resort to it; while the village itself is a blend of quaint old cottages, fish-cellars, modern villas and artists' studios" (197).
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Bibliography
Lach-Szyrma, Wladislaw Somerville. Newlyn and Its Pier. Penzance: 1884. Google Books. Free Ebook.
Penzance, Newlyn. Leonard A. Lauder collection of Raphael Tuck & Sons postcards; Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection. Internet Archive. Contributed by the Newbury Library, England. Web. 5 August 2023.
Salmon, Arthur L. Cornwall. London: Methuen, 1903. Internet Archive. Contributed by University of California Libraries. Web. 5 August 2023.
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