This building isn't in Penzance any more. It was ripped down in the 1960's for no good reason. Taken in the 1920's you might know this building better as Weatherspoon's today
The building had been altered, extended, the door in a new place, but still the wonderful curved glass and the art nouveau tracery to the glazed frieze remained; I used to stand and wonder at the contents of the shop front. Tragic when it was demolished and replaced with the concrete monstrosity. But it has all gone as you say, and is replaced again; such is the transience of architecture, but we have still lost something beautiful.
A Building Line Plan of 1948 dictates that any new work will have to be set back to that building line; it is therefore all the more important to look after our finer buildings; this building originally built 1885, not very old for a granite structure. We have a number of very important buildings in this town that are being neglected.
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