The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Penzance, Cornwall*

Penzance, Cornwall Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Union Hotel, Chapel Street
• LYOYDS BANK WITH THE HUGE CLOCK ON IT,TRAIN STATION AND WHARFSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE
• The cinema in Causewayhead was great till they turned it into a multi-screened dog kennel.
• Chapel House, Market House, Morrab Library, the Station.
• The Market House, the School of Art/ Library, Newlyn School of Art, the Egyptian House - and the Railway Station? (Sure, even though its going to ruin...)
• Market House (the one with the dome)

Demolish It Now Building

• My maths teachers house, s'pose i cant tell you his name
• THE WHOLE OF TRENEERE! (APART FROM MY COUSINS HOUSE)
• The whole of Treneere?
• Humphry Davy School! Horrid place.
• The scout hut in Heamoor. Nothing wrong with Scouting mind you,just the leaders in that hut! Breadline Centre in Bread St. It only encourages more dead beat bums to descend on Penzance.
• The old, town-centre Tesco's that they said they were going to keep open when their planning application for the new superstore was being considered...and while we're about it, how about the new superstore as well?
• Penlowarth!!!! Also the little line of shops down Market Jew Street with all that brown boarding on thier upper halves. Eurch!
• Penlowarth Building, for two reasons: i) it is the most abysmal example of 'sixties architecture, but more importantly ii) it's the dole office!
• The Angarrack inn pub!

The Best Things

• Rural small town tranquility
• The realisation of Celtic culture, especially of the link with fellow Brythonic countries Cymru(Wales) and Breizh(Brittany): "Kernow Kensa!"
• THE SEA FRONT, FRESH AIR AND THE WEATHER
• Being next to the sea now its been cleaned-up...Allegedly!! Lovely countryside, mainly unspoiled. The pubs along the seafront. Fishing. Surfing. The weather...Really! (except btn Sept & May) Most of the locals (see The Worst Things)
• Jubilee Pool, on hot summer days in the 1960's when we used to go down in our swimsuits and laze around the top balcony.Supposed to be revising for our exams! Corpus Christi Fair, mind you it usually rained when it was here!(Back in the 60's)
• People.
• Friday/ Staurday nights, if you have body armour and a sponge, or Saturday mornings for shopping. Also the magnificent Penlee House Art Gallery (mega-cheap somedays for entry)
• Loads of pubs (haunted),
• Definitely the gorgeous beach on St. Ives Bay....3 miles long a lot better than the St. Ives beaches.

The Worst Things

• The ever increasing number of lost hippy smack head losers who invade each summer and remain to slowly decompose in the street.
• SOME PEOPLE HATING SKATEBOARDERS BUT THATS ALWAYS GOING TO BE AROUND
• The drunken dross who inhabit anywhere they can get, now the alcohol ban is in force. The drug culture- Penzance has one of the worst drug problems in the South West. Gangs of kids who think they're hard but would shit themselves if faced individually. Some of the locals are very "cliquey" and dont like Emmets ( Anyone not Cornish )
• Dead-beat pan handlers, with their mangey dogs lying around the streets. Mostly on the Terrace and Causewayhead. Someone should run them out of town!
• People.
• The Bus Shelter, the state of Jubilee Pool, ditto Station, the roads, the lower end of the main street, the drunks, the teenyboppers, the old women in trainers ... basic, everyday loathsome stuff. Oh, and the weather.
• Nice place to visit, but not live
• Lack of things to do for youngsters

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Last updated: 2007-10-29