Notice the old bandstand which was later to be removed, so no more Sunday concerts. The sand was washed away from the foreshore to such an extent that it was possible to see yellow and grey clay and brown peat in which old tree trunks and branches from the submerged forest of Mount's Bay were...
The Jubilee Bathing Pool was breached at the height of the storm when the level of the water inside was covering the paved area before the wall gave way.
The old slip which faced the other way from today's version took the brunt of the storm. Notice the Bathing Pool and the War Memorial at Battery behind.
The following day after the worst storm in living memory, Penzance Promenade licks its wounds, one of them a gaping hole in the sea wall opposite the Marine Hotel, now the Lugger Inn.
The aftermath of the storm. I actually witnessed the wall cave in before the onslaught of the monstrous waves the previous evening. This was partly aided by the pressure of the water gathering within as well as the waves from without.
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