This was the steam engine which had been used at Penlee Quarry to pull the stone-trucks to the Newlyn South Pier for loading onto ships there. The picture was taken in 1955 on Sandy Cove the shingle beach between the South Pier and the Quarry. I do not know when this engine was replaced by...
The flat-roofed houses at Roskilly, or 'Skilly' as it was invariably called, still remain and many quarrymen and their families have occupied them. Originally these houses were known as the 'Welsh houses,' a reference to the men from South Wales who found jobs here. Ben Batten, ''Newlyn of...
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