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Sentence Examples Olde England must have been a sunless maze that stretched from Penzance to Carlisle. Indeed, she was no mean composer herself, vide her full-length opera The Smugglers of Penzance. Penzance harbour has an excellent slipway for launching, with a large car park adjacent. There is a wide range of hotels and bed and breakfasts in Penzance and other resorts. You can buy aquamarine images by the yard in quayside galleries in St Ives, Penzance, Mevagissey or Falmouth. In Penzance try the Dolphin Inn on the wet dock, which has been used by mariners for more than 500 years. The Pirates of Penzance is one of those enduring operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan, the subject matter of which doesn't matter a hoot. She went off to Penzance in search of sea bathing and inexpensive lodgings. In 2017 a new seven day festival centred around Cornish language, history and culture, The Kernewek Festival, started in Penzance. On summer weekends trains from Glasgow Central also operate to Paignton, Penzance and Newquay. On 20 August the following year, a class 43, fleet number 43188 derailed when forming the rear power car of a service to Penzance. It is also the name of a former local government district, whose council was based in Penzance. Penwith also contains an artificial lake, Drift Reservoir, which is located appromimately 3 miles west of Penzance. Penzance has been home to numerous persons of note, including actress Thandie Newton, model Jean Shrimpton and cricketer Jack Richards. This line was extended westwards through Exeter and Plymouth to reach Truro and Penzance, the most westerly railway station in England. A third West Country express was introduced in 1890, running to and from Penzance as The Cornishman. St Just in Penwith is the westernmost town in England, though the same claim has been made for Penzance, which is larger. On the death of his wife in 1821, his sister in law, Elizabeth Branwell, came from Penzance, Cornwall to help him bring up the children. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. The classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Pirates of Penzance focuses on The Pirate King and his hopeless band of pirates. Show More Sentences On 20 October 1816 Trevithick left Penzance on the whaler ship Asp accompanied by a lawyer named Page and a boilermaker bound for Peru. In 2016 plans were announced for a new helicopter service between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly. The proposals include building a new heliport on Jelbert Way, Penzance, near to the location of the old one. The new service hopes to be operational in 2018 and will serve the islands of St Mary's and Tresco from the new base at Penzance. At the end of the war, a transport vacuum arose when the Ministry of Shipping withdrew the wartime service between St Mary's and Penzance. On 1 September 2009, the Steamship Company took over the lease to operate and manage Penzance Dry Dock. It can still be seen on the civic regalia of the Mayor of Penzance and on several important landmarks in the town. The manor included Penzance as well as parts of Madron, Paul, St Buryan and Sancreed. Although Penzance is not mentioned in the survey document the Domesday Book, it is likely that the area would have been included. Being at the far west of Cornwall, Penzance and the surrounding villages have been sacked many times by foreign fleets. In 1768 a friendly society of Tradesmen was formed at Penzance with 101 members living within three miles of the town. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance may also have added to the association. By the time Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Penzance had established itself as an important regional centre. The first lifeboat in Cornwall was bought by the people of Penzance in 1803 but it was sold in 1812 due to lack of funds to keep it in operation. The completion of the railway through Cornwall made it easier for tourists and invalids to enjoy the mild climate of Penzance. Tourists could now make full use of the whole seafront between Penzance and Newlyn harbours. Penzance railway station is at the eastern end of Market Jew Street and close to the harbour. In 1974 the Penzance Borough was abolished and replaced by Penwith District Council. Penzance also elects a mayor every year in May from the members of Penzance town council. Penzance now has a mixed economy consisting of light industrial, tourism and retail businesses. Show More Sentences Penzance also had its own submarine mine situated off the coast of the town next to the area known as Wherrytown. During the 19th century and until 1912, Penzance had the largest tin smelting house in Cornwall, operated by the Bolitho family. As a consequence of this concentration of mining wealth, Penzance became a centre for commercial banking. The current conservation area forms most of the core of the town of Penzance and the historic harbour areas of Newlyn and Mousehole. Latham, the Penzance Borough Engineer, and opened in 1935, the year of King George V's Silver Jubilee. Penzance is the home of the pirates in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. Penzance is home to the Acorn Arts Centre, sited within a former Methodist chapel. Penzance is also the home of Penlee House, an art gallery and museum notable for its collection of paintings by members of the Newlyn School. Within Penzance town centre there are a growing number of commercial art galleries. Prior to the 1980s Penzance had six Methodist churches, but this number has now been reduced to two, Chapel Street and High Street. He learnt his cricket with the Humphry Davy Grammar School and Penzance Cricket Club. The Great Western Main Line runs from London to Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth and Penzance in the far west of Cornwall. Robert Dunkin, a Penzance sadler and maker of scientific instruments taught Davy the basis of practical science. The ferry had to remain docked in Penzance while engineers worked on the fault. The next day, the shrew was flown back from Penzance to Scilly on a Skybus plane and released back into its natural environment. The day trip visitor had become unwell around 30 minutes out of Penzance, so a doctor travelling on board asked for the helicopter. Scillonian III, as seen from the air, halfway between St Mary's and Penzance. Gry Maritha is a freight ship based at Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, run by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company. After Davy's father died in 1794, Tonkin apprenticed him to John Bingham Borlase, a surgeon with a practice in Penzance. Three of Davy's paintings from around 1796 have been donated to the Penlee House museum at Penzance. Show More Sentences Davy was acquainted with the Wedgwood family, who spent a winter at Penzance. It lies between the stations of Dawlish and Newton Abbot on the Great Western Main Line between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall. Ferry services in Plymouth, Penzance and the Scilly Isles were cancelled for both days with gusts of wind expected to reach 80mph. Since 1878, Penwith has had a weekly newspaper, The Cornishman, based in Penzance. This area included Penzance, Paul, Ludgvan and St Just, and stretched not only from Land's End to St Erth but also included the Isles of Scilly. It was originally the home of Captain Tregarthen who introduced the first sloop in 1849, 'Ariadne', that serviced the Hugh Town from Penzance. In 1852 the Great Western Railway arrived in Penzance, increasing tourism and the general population considerably. The increase in population brought with it an increase in crime and the Penzance force grew accordingly. Their head office is located in the Isles of Scilly Travel Centre in Penzance, Cornwall. Skybus became the sole remaining air link for the Isles of Scilly from October 2012, when the helicopter service from Penzance ended. The heliport was opened formally on 1 September 1964 by Councillor Alfred Beckerleg, the Mayor of Penzance with the Lady Mayoress. The principal towns in Penwith are Penzance, the port town and seat of local government, and St Ives, one of the county's most popular seaside resorts. The economy of Penzance has, like those of many Cornish communities, suffered from the decline of the traditional industries of fishing, mining and agriculture. Penzance failed to obtain parish status for the former borough and Charter Trustees were appointed to continue elections for the position of Mayor of the town. It was only discovered as the ship was about to arrive in Penzance. The earliest evidence of settlement in Penzance is from the Bronze Age. The main towns in the constituency are Penzance, St Ives and Helston. According to William Pryce in his 1778 book Mineralogia Cornubiensis, Penzance coined more tin than the towns of Liskeard, Lostwithiel and Helston put together. From 1 September 1964 the route was to the new Penzance Heliport. Some trains from Manchester Piccadilly to Bristol Temple Meads are extended to Paignton and Plymouth, and on summer weekends to Penzance and Newquay. Show More Sentences The station was also served by Wessex Trains with one train a day to and from Penzance, as well as the services that are now run by their successor First Great Western. It is wholly owned by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company which also runs the passenger ferry, Scillonian III, and freight services from Penzance to the Islands. At the age of six, Davy was sent to the grammar school at Penzance. Skybus operate a shuttle bus from Penzance railway station to the airport. The heliport hosted scheduled flights to the Isles of Scilly, with a connection to the railway network at Penzance railway station by a special bus service. The Dwarf Sperm Whale has never before been recorded in UK waters but was seen last Sunday in Mounts Bay next to Penzance by a member of the public. Penzance promenade has been destroyed in parts several times by storms. The feast day of Corpus Christi was also celebrated in Penzance. Every December Penzance holds the Montol Festival a community arts event reviving many of the Cornish customs of Christmas, including Guise dancing. On summer weekdays the heliport received up to six flights a day from Penzance Heliport on the mainland, declining to two services a day in winter. The company is based in the Isles of Scilly Travel Centre Penzance. Indeed, during the more than nine years that separated The Pirates of Penzance and The Gondoliers, he wrote just three plays outside of the partnership with Sullivan. At the time the libretto was written, 1879, Penzance had become popular as a peaceful resort town, so the idea of it being overrun by pirates was amusing to contemporaries. Gregory Watt, son of James Watt, visited Penzance for his health's sake, and while lodging at the Davy's house became a friend and gave him instructions in chemistry. Although the quarry has not been identified, it has been suggested that the Gear, a rock now submerged half a mile from the shore at Penzance, may be the site. Until recently, there was little evidence for anything but an early and short Roman occupation of Cornwall, and there have so far been only three finds in Penzance. Prior to World War II, Penzance was also home to a further 3 cinemas and at least 2 theatres, one of which, the Pavilion Theatre, is now home to an amusement arcade. Prins Willem and Penzance, two hurdlers of immense promise who could go on to better things, grace the card at Huntingdon today, writes Stable Boy. Both Inquests record 29 burgesses at Penzance and 40 at Mousehole. A burgess paid his rent with money rather than with personal services, and this indicates that Penzance and Mousehole were considered to be towns. Show More Sentences Totnes railway station is situated on the Exeter to Plymouth line, and has trains direct to London Paddington, Penzance and Plymouth, and as far north as Aberdeen. The UK's longest direct rail journey runs from Aberdeen to Penzance. In 2006 the side moved again, this time to the home ground of Camborne Rugby Club, before returning to Penzance in 2010 to play, once more, at the Mennaye Field. Penzance was the home of Mount's Bay RFC, founded in 1999, originally as a team for local players who could not play for the professional Cornish Pirates. In Penzance and Falmouth, the total eclipse will last for 2 minutes 2 seconds. The longest period of sunlessness will be in Romania, at 2 mins 23 seconds. Penzance railway station, the terminus of the West Cornwall Railway, opened on 11 March 1852 on the eastern side of the harbour, although trains only ran to Redruth at first. Cornish people around Penzance still get occasional glimpses at extreme low water of a sunken forest in Mount's Bay, where petrified tree stumps become visible. These services developed into the First South West bus network that currently serves the area and is still centred on a terminus alongside Penzance railway station. Penzance was the birthplace of the chemist Sir Humphry Davy. It is often suggested that the tale of Lyonesse represents an extraordinary survival of folk memory of the flooding of the Isles of Scilly and Mount's Bay near Penzance. A ferry service operates between Penzance Harbour and the Isles of Scilly. Mr McLoughlin s tour also included a visit to Penzance Harbour where he toured the ferry Scillonian III and viewed ongoing work to improve the harbour. Truro's first railway station was at Highertown, which was opened in 1852 by the West Cornwall Railway and from where trains ran to Redruth and Penzance. Examples from Classical Literature His ardor had worn him out, and he was forced to take a holiday at Penzance. So he went away, and they rowed him over to the Port, and he sailed to Penzance. He would fish off Penzance Pier for grey mullet, catching more than his companions. If not too late, will you tell your uncle that I do not wish to delay a moment in Penzance. She, probably, not knowing what has happened to us, will stand on to Penzance. The musical-box had burst into selections from The Pirates of Penzance. As the wind was south-west, we sailed straight for Penzance. In this way and by this train Armorel and Effie travelled to Penzance. A steamer maintains communication with the Scilly Isles from Penzance. Julian, Penzance Plaudits well deserved Mick Kinane thoroughly deserves every plaudit that he receives following his decision to retire. Penzance is on the south, and faces the English Channel on the south. Look 'ee, now, at this lutestring piece I got to Penzance church-town. The crew of the tugboat bailed out the derelict and towed her to Penzance. The mother church of Penzance is that of Madron a short distance away. Find more words! 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