Boase, Bennetts and James Solicitors. Was at one time the Health Area Office.
Notes added below.
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Nr 1 North Parade.
Change swept Penzance after the Napoleonic Wars and the new found money of around 1820.
Previous to that Paul was the major 'township' (with Mousehole and Newlyn).
North Parade was commenced in 1815, completed 1826.
Looking at the detailing of quoin stones, and the doorway, this is the first house to be built probably 1810.
This one was built for a specific client with a lot of money.
Occupants of 1 North Parade.
1841 Mrs Crouch
1845 Landowner - Thomas Pidwell; Lessee - J F Branwell; Occupier - Edward Crouch.
1851 Robert Branwell,Head,M,52,Mayor Penzance. Flour Dealer,Penzance Cornwall; Grocer Employing 10 Men 7 Boys 1 Girl
1861 Mary Branwell,Head,W,60,Annuitant,Newlyn
1871 Mary Branwell,Head,W,70,Annuitant,Newlyn
1881 Philippa T. Branwell,Head,U,52,Annuitant,Penzance
1891 Phillippa Branwell,Head,S,62,Living On Her Own Means
1893 Phillippa Branwell
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The men who started the business.
1893 - 1914
Edward Boase, solicitor, and town clerk of St. Ives,
Sec to the Porthminster House Co. Limited, St. Ives,
Coroner for West Cornwall, Savings Bank buildings, Parade St. Penzance (where the Co-op Queen Square is now)
Clerk to the Hayle local board;
Lived at house - The Hollies, Alverton in 1914.
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1914
Barrie Bennetts, Solicitor, 1, North Parade.
Barrie Bennetts. Full name Barzillai Beckerleg Bennetts. Born July 14, 1883, Penzance. Died July 26, 1958, Alverton, Penzance
Penzance solicitor, and president of Penzance Cricket Club; also played for GB XV England vs Australia 1909.
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Boase and Bennetts were at 10 Parade Street from 1939-1941.
Shown as 10 Parade Street in 20th December 1951.
18th May 1957 ditto.
10 Parade Street is the ITV office (was the Tory HQ at one time).
1963 shown in documents as 1 North Parade. Office records show that the firm came to this address in 1960.
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Barrie Bennetts had presumably taken over 1 North Parade from the Branwell Estates around 1900.
1 North Parade in 1952 was rented by Cornwall County Council as The Health Area Office until 1960.
Clinics were held in there (I went there as a child).
Anything further needs to be researched in the Cornwall County Council and Rates Records and in the MH Records held at the CRO.
Raymond Forward
