The Market Cross

Made the most of a drizzly day.
A walk round Trengwainton Gardens with umbrellas up. Still enjoyable, even if a bit wet.
Now owned by the National Trust, but the Bolitho family still live in the house which isn’t open to the public.
Extra photo of the huge palm trees.

Then drove to Penzance, where we walked down to the Orangery in Penlee House.
One of our favourite cafes, and the Mediterranean vegetable and tomato soup with a cheese scone really warmed us up and was delicious.
This is where I took the photo of the market cross.
1000 years old, and carved from a single slab of local granite.
It has had many resting places, in 1899 it was moved from the Market House to Morrab Gardens, and then to Penlee Park in 1953 moving to its present location outside Penlee House in 1977.

Walking back to the car we noticed a black plaque on a beautiful White House, flanked by two large magnolia trees.
Phoenix House was once the Penzance Registry Office.
It was here that Dylan Thomas married Caitlin in 1937.
They spent their wedding night at The Lobster Pot, Mousehole. A guest house run by his friend Wyn Henderson.
I love the letter he wrote to his friend Vernon Watkins.
“ My own news is very big and simple. I was married three days ago; to Caitlin Macnamara; in Penzance registry office; with no money, no prospects of money; no attendant friends or relatives, and in complete happiness.”

The Lobster Pot is where we have had some very enjoyable meals back in the late 1960s
When my mum and dad first moved to Cornwall, it was a very good restaurant in those days.
Unfortunately now turned into apartments.
Never knew the connection with Dylan Thomas before.