Penzance, Market Jew Street c.1955
Photo ref: P40088
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Memories of Penzance, Market Jew Street c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Penzance, Market Jew Street c.1955

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It was August 1955. School summer holidays and when they were over, it would be time for me to begin junior school back in my Midlands home town. My mother had been preparing for that big event, purchasing embroidered cloth school badges to sew onto a new blazer and matching cap. She'd purchased a new brown leather school satchel amongst other things such as a splendid set of pencil crayons and a geometry ...see more