Looking south from the end of the north harbour wall in Mousehole Harbour, showing the wooden grooves for the harbour barricades on the end of the southern harbour wall

Date:: 1965 - 1971

Location:: Mousehole Harbour, Harbour Walls, Penzance, Mousehole, Cornwall

Reference:: CIP01/71A/32

Type:: Photograph (Print)

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Description

If a storm was known to be approaching, large wooden timbers were stacked vertically between these grooves and corresponding grooves on the north harbour wall, in order to barricade the harbour gate and shelter vessels from the worst of the storm waves. The south harbour wall (pictured) dates from the seventeenth century, whereas the north harbour wall was created in the mid-nineteenth century

Content

This is part of the Job: CIP01/71A Cornish Industrial Archaeology Photographs 71A; within the Collection: CIP01 Cornish Industrial Archaeology Photographs

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator Of Archive: Falconer, Keith

Keywords

Post Medieval Harbour