Gallery Trail 2018

Buck’s-horn plantain Buck’s-horn Sea beet From Newlyn Art The Rain it From The Exchange, follow the red Gallery, follow the red Raineth Every Day numbers in descending order, numbers in ascending on your walk to Newlyn Art Gallery order, on your walk to 12 4 Pirates! NEW STREET The Exchange The Exchange CHAPEL STREET 10 NEWLYN ART GALLERY 11 Union New Road, Newlyn, Penzance TR18 5PZ Hotel THE EXCHANGE Princes Street, Penzance TR18 2NL Brick face Tidal observatory Penzance’s pink prom newlynartgallery.co.uk 01736 363715 A L Church St Mary’s E X OPEN Summer Mon - Sat, Winter Tue - Sat, 10.00 – 17.00 A 9 GALLERY TRAIL N D The Egyptian House R BUSES run from The Greenmarket to A Admiral Benbow R 8 Newlyn Art Gallery every 15 - 30 mins. O A Newlyn Art Gallery 5 D D R A Y Facts and information supplied by Bryony Rylett EL WESTERN PR 7 P OMENADE R A Leaflet design by SPY Design and Publishing Ltd. AD OAD H RO NEW Educational Charity: 273785 Fishermen’s memorial Fishermen’s VAT Number: 133 1322 23 1 UNDER C How to use this map: 3 Limited Company Number: 1310070 The Jubilee pool Follow the route indicated and every FREE time you see a number ( 1 ), you will ROUTE 6 find a brief description of the site @newlynexchange GALLERYMAP TRAIL 2 overleaf. ROUTE MAP MOUNTS BAY Gallery Trail statue and raised the money to pay for it and its by pirates. Boats were captured, fishermen does not stop waves, sometimes as high style is Commissioner’s Gothic. In 1985 an arson 11 The Egyptian House in location allows relatives and friends to pay their kidnapped and sold into slavery. In July as the three-storey Queen’s Hotel, from attack damaged the interior and the new East window Chapel Street was built by From Newlyn Art Gallery, follow the red respects as many of those lost at sea have no 1625 sixty men, women and children, the crashing up and over onto the road. includes images of a lugger and the RMS Scillonian. mineralogist John Lavin in numbers in ascending order, on your walk to grave on land. Statistics show that fishermen congregation of a Penzance church, were 1835 to house his collection The Exchange. From The Exchange, have a one in 20 chance of being killed at work kidnapped and enslaved. The Cornish 6 The Jubilee Bathing Pool is a Grade II listed building 8 Unusually many houses in Chapel of rocks and minerals. follow the red numbers in descending order, and are 50 times more likely to die working Pirates is also the name of the successful you can swim in! Named to commemorate the Street are brick-faced. This was The architect is thought to on your walk to Newlyn Art Gallery. compared to other jobs. The statue was unveiled by local rugby team. Jubilee of King George V, the pool is one of the finest probably due to the street’s proximity have been John Foulston of HRH Princess Anne in 2007. surviving examples of an Art Deco seaside lido. It to the harbour where ships arriving Plymouth. The Landmark At the end of the Newlyn Green, by the basketball would exchange their brick ballast for Newlyn Art Gallery was commissioned by Victorian was badly damaged in the storms of February 2014 Trust acquired the unique 2 Depending on the season a number of seashore plants courts, cross the pebbles and take the steps up to cargos such as copper ore, pilchards building in 1988 and it now Philanthropist John Passmore Edwards, and opened and has undergone major refurbishment. It currently can be seen along the seafront, including Sea Beet the promenade. To avoid steps, do not cross the and china clay. Look for unusual houses two shops and holiday in 1895. The gallery was specified first as The Opie opens from May to October, but work has started on (Beta vulgaris ssp, maritime) which produces pebbles and continue along the pavement, joining drilling a geothermal well which will provide enough laying patterns and colours. apartments. Memorial Gallery, as cut into the stone plaque across masses of large, triangle-shaped, leathery the promenade via a short slope. renewable energy to heat a section of the water to 35 the front façade, in honour of the ‘Cornish Wonder’, leaves in spring, and Buck’s-horn plantain degrees. This will mean, for the first time, that the 9 ‘The Admiral Benbow’. Sound familiar? There is an 12 East of The Exchange, Number 4, New Street, was portrait painter John Opie. From the beginning, (Plantago coronopus). Its leaves were used as a 5 Penzance has the only Promenade in Cornwall. Before pool will have heated water, transforming it into an inn of the same name in Robert Louis Stevenson’s the home of the Newlyn and Penzance Art Students’ however, it was officially called The Passmore Edwards medicine against the bite of a mad dog. the prom, as it is known, was built, a succession of all-year round attraction. classic 1883 novel ‘Treasure Island’. Society from 1888, run by Norman Garstin who Art Gallery (PEAG) in Newlyn, and towans (Cornish for dunes) linked Newlyn to Penzance The author and his parents visited painted one of the most iconic images of Penzance: 3 colloquially as Newlyn Art Gallery ‘Above Sea Level’ means the location’s Why pink? The prom was completed in 1843 and in 1870 Enter the churchyard through the south Cornwall in August 1877 and his ‘The Rain It Raineth Every Day’. Now it is the most (NAG). It has been remodelled height above average sea level measured was laid with tarmac and gravel which became soft and entrance, with the granite archway. Go letters from the visit indicate popular painting at Penlee House Gallery & Museum. at Newlyn during 1915-1921. If you stand by they stayed in Penzance. Look and extended a number of times, sticky in hot weather. 27 years later it was resurfaced; this up the steps and exit through the gates Alfred Wallis, the painter, lived for a while at Number the Fishermen’s Memorial and look across up on the roof and you will see 2, and married Susan Ward at St. Mary’s Church. They most recently in 2007 with the time with concrete paving which led to more complaints to join Chapel Street. To avoid steps to Newlyn harbour you can see the point in the church yard a life-size replica of Octavious moved to St Ives and Wallis took up painting after her addition of the pavilion on the about the glare caused by the sun shining on the slabs. , continue using the from which all heights above mean sea pavement below church wall, turning Lanyon, one of the notorious death in 1922. seaward side. Eventually, in 1896, the council laid new slabs, tinted pink level are based. to reduce glare. A relic of the re-laying ceremony is the up into Chapel Street. Benbow gang, who used the Penzance Inn as its headquarters. The Exchange was built on the site of a former 1 Created by West Cornwall- slab, inlaid with brass arrows, indicating magnetic and 4 Penzance is in the company of a small number of places 7 St Mary’s Church stands on and market that opened in 1845. The market was bought based artist Tom Leaper, the true north. This is found opposite the bottom of Alexandra immortalised in the titles of great works of culture. The near the site of ancient chapels. The 10 The Union Hotel was formerly the Ship and Castle by the Post Office and demolished to make way for Fishermen’s Memorial is in Road. In 1962, 300 people were made homeless by operetta Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan stone pinnacle of the spire of the Inn. It was renamed to mark the union of England and a telephone exchange that opened in 1964. Now the honour of Newlyn fishermen the worst storm in living memory. The eight-month was first performed in 1879. W S Gilbert, who wrote the previous chapel can be seen beside the remains Ireland in 1801. News of Nelson’s victory and death at former telephone exchange is The Exchange, which who lost their lives at sea. Local reconstruction of the prom included building a low wall, libretto, thought he had Cornish ancestors. of an ancient cross rescued from a much earlier the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was announced here celebrated its first decade in 2017. people commissioned the designed to protect property from tidal surges. The wall In the 17th and 18th centuries Cornwall was plagued chapel. The present Church opened in 1835 and its 38 hours before the news reached London. .

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