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Ice cream, you scream we all scream for ice cream! Ice cream, you scream we all scream for ice cream!

July’s Photo Friday theme is sweet and savoury treats!

Pictured on the Penzance Promenade at the bottom of Morrab Road in the 1920s, this hand pulled cart was owned by the Scoble family who were well-known ice cream makers of the era. The sign reads "Scoble's Ices, Guaranteed Pure and Made Fresh Daily"

Photo Archive Identifier: OCC 6.002

#Library #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive #Penzance #Cornwall #Icecream #holiday
Our Photo Archive intern Sam is back with his next Our Photo Archive intern Sam is back with his next blog about our collections. “Penzance Then and Now” explores the town’s history using images from the photo archive and some contemporary images taken for comparison. In this second blog in the series, Sam shows us a range of photos that show the history of the Promenade and west Penzance. Link in our bio.

#Penzance #ExploreYourArchive #HistoricPhotos #PhotoArchive #LovePenzance
‘The stars move still, time runs, the clock will s ‘The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.’

Join Mary Cahill on the 19th August as she explorers some of the main themes and passages of one of Marlowe’s best known works.

Find out more here using the link in our bio.

#Library #libraryworkshop #DrFaustus #Marlowe #workshop
On the 1st April, Sarah Menage joined us to delive On the 1st April, Sarah Menage joined us to deliver her presentation, ‘Lewis Carroll: Strange but true’. You can find a link to the recording of the talk in our bio.

If you wish to make a donation after you watch, it would help the Library immensely.

#Library #lecture #librarytalk
#books #LewisCaroll
We’re riding in style for this Photo Friday! Here We’re riding in style for this Photo Friday!
Here we have an image of a Thorneycroft (Fleet No 1299) as it awaits passengers at The Queens Hotel for a trip to Lands End & St Ives summer 1928.

Photo Archive Identifier: TRANS 6.136

#Library #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive #transport #Cornwall #GWR #holiday
Our Books Open Day runs till 3.00 pm today. Drop i Our Books Open Day runs till 3.00 pm today. Drop in to our (cool) Reading Room to explore some of our rarest and oldest treasures!

#BookDisplay #RareBooks #LovePenzance #LoveYourLibrary
Evie Bond returns for a morning discussing the Fem Evie Bond returns for a morning discussing the Female Saints of Cornwall on 18th July. Find more information and book directly with Evie using the link in our bio.

#Librarytalk #femalesaints #CornishHistory
The Library will be closed this Saturday 27th June The Library will be closed this Saturday 27th June for Mazey Day - we look forward to seeing many of you out and about over the weekend.

Here we have an image from the Quay Fair at the Old Harbour in Penzance from1910.

Photo Archive Identifier: STRT 8.007

#Library #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive #golowan #Cornwall #funfair #celebration #MazeyDay #LovePenzance
Oh how we wish the Summer solstice sun would last Oh how we wish the Summer solstice sun would last forever! 

Here we have a scene of the sun setting over the calm sea at Nanjizal. We hope you get to enjoy a view like this soon.

Photo Archive Identifier: SCAPE 6.002

#Library #exploreyourarchive #photoarchive #Nanjizal #Cornwall #sunset #Summersolstice
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