Sid Courtenay Shop

I remember Sid and the shop, we used to stop and talk with him on the way too and back from Saturday Morning (MINORS) Pictures, firstly at the ABC Cinema in Queen Street, which unfortunately closed, it had an organ that used to come up out of the stage,,,we then used to go to the Savoy Cinema in Causeway Head,,,2/6 pocket money a week, we could go pictures, and get chips on the way home, and still have change to buy a pilchard for bait in the week to go fishing down the harbour and catch pouting off the steps with handlines, those were the days and that was growing up...... So has this been supplied By shaun Courtenay Then, who lived in Heamoor??

Another photograph of lost Penzance. Wonderful.

My grandmother worked in West Cornwall Hospital in the 1950s and early 1960s. She used to infuriate my mother because on the way from work to the bus stop she would call in the junk shop , (belonging to a Mr Courtenay), and buy something, every day it seemed. Would it have been in these premises or had he moved by then?

A small correction the flower shop opposite my Fathers place was run by Percy Matthews and was called Bowl of Flowers,In answer to Chill My Father had this shop in the early sixties and remained there until the early 70 s when he moved to the cottage that stood where the public toilets are located in Jennings Street before finally locating to the building that is now occupied by Breadline. I think this photo was taken aroond 1968. In reply to Heamoorman you are correct in who supplied the photo

Well hello Shaun,,,,You may remember me I used to live next door to heamoor post office, drank in the Sportsmans and the legion, and my old man used to work for Trinity House on the THV STELLA,, you also know my eldest son I believe?? you lived at the top of Wesley Street. ha now your thinking??

REmember Sam well

Goodly,,,,How you keeping, You still in Heamoor?

No we ve moved first to Newlyn and 5 years ago back into PZ

Ok right, glad alls well,,Ive started a Heamoor Blog Page have a look sometime, you can find it at (...) Regards

I have some bits here now that my mother-in-law picked up from Sids Store she and her sister were always in there. I imagine they would have been the same age as him