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cornwall 90 & 91

 pictures all from film scanned on a flatbed
We visited Phyllis on the way down to Porthmeor, a Landmark Trust property

Elderly pussy cat

Lower Porthmeor Farmhouse where we stayed

St Ives

Cess Pit

Irish steps

Rocks and the sea and on the right through the arch

Out-buildings

Draughty door

Stones around the bay

Peter on the cobbles

Better example of Irish Steps

Green gully

Ruins of a previous mining community

Des. res. in past times?

Molluscs

Love the colours and shapes

Rock pool

Across the fields to Lower and Upper Porthmeor

Wider view on the right

Geevor tin mine drill

Mine trucks

Clun Castle Quoit

Admiral Benbow in Penzance

Cottage at The Bottoms just beyond St Levan.   They had dispensed with a road sign

St Michael's Mount

 

Low key version

land's end

Land's End

Bataleur eagle at Hayle

trebah gardens

Fungus

Cascade

Mandevilla

The waves were pounding in onto the Trebah beach

Palm trees

Trebah House

Bedroom Porthmeor

mousehole

Gift shop

Tomatoes on the beach

Harbour Mousehole

chrysauster

 

cotehele

We stayed a couple of days with Phyllis

Paintbrushes

Irises and fruit

In the tower

In the tower

Tower room

Drawing room windowsill

To the tower

From the front door

 

Ante-room

Doors

African violeta

To the front door

Pokeweed

Dark, dark glade

Library and dungeon

Ante-room window ledge

Phyllis's part of the house

Gate between the top garden and the valley garden

durgan

We stayed at Wood Cottage - we were promised visits from foxes and we were not disappointed.   The property was hard to find all routes seemed to go via Gweek.   On our last day there we found another route.

Wood Cottage from National Trust Website

Durgan Village

Hydrangeas and agapanthus

Stately Pines view of Rosemullion head

Eagle and chaffinch

Door in isolation

Looking down on Durgan

Not sure what this is

Foxes came at dusk for cat biscuits and scraps

penzance We visited Penzance, the Bird Garden at Hayle and St Ives including Barbara Hepworth's sculptures in her garden and inside in the museum

3 Parade Passage - Aunty Win's house in the 50s

Jacob's ladder 111 steps

Lloyds Bank

Sky dropped in...

Lloyds Bank Penzance

Wolves at the door

st ives

White hydrangea

Alley

Fruit cake cat

Crane fly

Bathroom reflection

another one

St Ives house

Green pike

We bought a red one

Barbara Hepworth sculpture

Avocet

Barbara hepworth

In the workshop

St Ives

Newlyn

Newlyn

Golden morning light

We visited Barbara Hepworth's garden
barbara hepworth's garden

Is it a train?

The workroom

including a ladder

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