One a rather wet an miserable August day in 1999 we see the now defunct Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre at Penzance.
Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre at Penzance which housed the national collection of Trinity House. It included an significant amounts of lighthouse memorabilia which visitors could interact with, as well as a recreation of a light house interior.
In February 2005 Trinity House announced the museum's closure and relocation of the collection to Plymouth. Trinity House confirmed that they would not be relocating the collection in 2009, and were in negotiations with National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth to display some objects.
Between 1989 and the museum's closure in February 2005, the museum hosted approximately 10,000 visitors each year. Despite a campaign to keep it open, in 2005, Trinity House closed the site as they were contemplating opening a replacement museum at a busier site in Plymouth.
Trinity House confirmed that they would not be moving the museum to Plymouth in 2009, and that the memorabilia would no longer be visible to the public, though they would possibly display some at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.
Some items were also relocated to the Lizard Lighthouse Visitor Centre including the tramway wagon which was used to move buoys from the quayside to the buoy store.
For more 35mm Archive photographs of the Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre, Penzance please click here:
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Camera: Contax G1 + Carl Zeiss f2.8 28mm Biogon Lens
