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Fore Street looking west. Pensilva has two parallel roads, the lower Fore Street and the higher Princess Road, they are joined by Wesley Road and Church Hill. Fore Street used to be the main road and has the majority of older dwellings. As it is rather narrow in places the wider Princess Street has now become the main thoroughfare. |
Wesley Road is a short lane that joins Princess Road and Fore Street and runs from the Wesley Chapel to the Bible Christian Chapel. Again it is lined with a terrace of miners cottages. The photograph is taken on a foggy morning, a common occurrence in Pensilva. |
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This view is along Fore Street looking west, the road on the right is Wesley Road. The cottage on the left was until very recently a grocer's store. |
If you take away all the modern paraphernalia, such as the proliferation of posts and wires that Pensilva seems to suffer from, the road signs and markings, and the cars, as has been done in these photos, you will see that little has changed. The miners cottages are still there. |
| This old postcard of Pensilva shows Princess Road around 1900. It has not changed much, most of the dwellings are still there. I will photograph it as it is today whenever I can find a time when it is not too obscured with parked vehicles. Miner's cottages never had room to park a car! |
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This old postcard [kindly provided by Paul Symons] shows Fore Street looking west, probably circa 1890. The gentleman with the horse is believed to be William Tresise, who is listed as the grocer, draper and postmaster at the shop in the 1881 census. |
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| St Ive Cross showing the road going towards Woodcockseye and the Parish Boundary | From Fore Down, looking south east with Pensilva on the left. |
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Thousands of miners must have walked this track which winds from Pensilva, across Fore Down to the South Caradon Mines |
A view of Pensilva from Fore Down (at the base of Caradon Hill), Dartmoor can be seen in the far distance. |
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Pensilva Primary School, this building, built of granite from the Cheesewring quarry opened in 1914 and replaced an earlier building which then became a garage and blacksmiths. Within 3 weeks of opening the school closed for two weeks due to a severe outbreak of mumps and in 1915 it closed two months due to an outbreak of diphtheria that caused at least one fatality. Shortly after the school opening the Headmaster Mr Oliver Sargent volunteered for the War, never to return as he died in active service in 1916. |
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The Old Vicarage is a large rambling building of steep roofs and gables, situated opposite the Church. It is mentioned in the Glebe Terriers. It is now a private dwelling. |
Diagonally opposite the Vicarage is the Butcher's Arms. This inn has stood here for many centuries. |
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Photograph taken from the St Ive to Gang road. In the foreground on the left amongst the trees is Gate, West Morshead is in the centre, Pensilva stretches across the base of Caradon Hill |
Photograph taken in the general direction of Woolston |
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| This picture is taken downhill from Nineoaks, looking towards Marshgate, the fields of rape are on the other side of the River Lynher | This derelict cottage, which is on the verge of collapse, is the only dwelling remaining at Nineoaks, The census reveal that there were several agricultural labourers cottages here at one time. |
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This photograph is taken from South Hill parish near Tregonnett over the wooded valley of the river Lynher [running across the picture] towards St Ive and Linkinhorne. The farm buildings on the middle left belong to Scrawsdon Farm and those to the right are at Longridge. |
