Doors 165 – Penzance, Cornwall
Continuing with my doors of Cornwall from a short family holiday in August, I bring you this series of wonderful doors in Penzance.
My father lived in Penzance after he retired until his death in April 2018, and it was probably the happiest period of his life. He was a colourful man whose career in stage management, pub management and show business went down very well with the locals. He was an adopted son of Penzance and known to many in the town. This visit was a pilgrimage to the place he loved so much. I used the opportunity to photograph a few doors too.
Penzance was once a prosperous town that found itself at the end of Isenbard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway, and is known to many from the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, The Pirates of Penzance (or The Pirates of Men’s Pants as we used to call it at school). Now it is a bit of an eclectic place, with prosperity and poverty side by side. It is a honeypot for eccentrics, hippies, collectors of junk, drunks and addicts who seem to be attracted by its remoteness, quirkiness and mild climate. I think my dad made it into at least two of those categories.
I rather like this collection, I hope you do too…
More doors from Cornwall to come, but I think that next week I will try to switch it up a little bit with something else. That’s it for this week, may I wish you all a fun and relaxing weekend ahead.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.
by Scooj
Natural adventures 
Simple splendid selection Scooj
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you. I had fun doing these ones.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Lovely words and indeed a lovely selection of doors . . .
LikeLike
I like the odd-shaped transom window and the blue double doors at Captain Cutters House. The next door, the steep steps up to the white door is my favorite (but I love the detail on and around the last door). Thanks for bringing us along on your holiday, Stephen.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you. I really enjoyed this one.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like the collection a lot!
janet
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Janet.
LikeLike
You make Penzance sound and look like an urgent place to be. 🙂 Your father’s career was colourful. These doors are marvellous.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Beautiful selection of doors, and I love the rainbow! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you. The rainbow, I had forgotten about that. I rarely view my own site outside the admin views.
LikeLike
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 4:00 AM Natural adventures wrote:
> scooj posted: “Doors 165 – Penzance, Cornwall Continuing with my doors of > Cornwall from a short family holiday in August, I bring you this series of > wonderful doors in Penzance. My father lived in Penzance after he retired > until his death in April 2018, and it was proba” >
LikeLike