Cheshire Cat
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Cheshire Cat

This is my favourite Penzance Bench Mark, fading like Cheshire Cat until all that is left is the smile; I doubt this is noticed. The arrow is just visible at the apex of the large stone. To the right of the GPO marker is another stone (in the inset) incised with a serifed T, just like the one on the edge of the Terrace. Can you tell me where this is, thoroughfare and place?
I believe this is along the path running from the old Cornishman office along the bottom of the gardens of North Parada to emerge on Morrab Road almost opposite the Art School. I think this might be the garden wall of 12 or 13 North Parade. Is that called Victoria Place?
 
Here is an interesting one for you ... there was a Bench Mark in Victoria Place in 1875 before Morrab Road was built; I want to see if by any chance it is still there, but this picture is not of that one.
 
It looks very much lie that wall that I knew intimately a few years ago. Is it the footpath from Morrab Road through to Alexandra Place, along the perimeter of Penlee Park then? I think that wall is similar.
 
Very similar, I have found a later Bench Mark, on the stone base to the old railing of the Penlee Estate, with a steel stud; I am eventually hoping to build a complete set of Penzance Bench Marks, and hoping to find as many of the originals that are no longer recorded - I have two of those already. But, not in that lane from Morrab to Alexandra.
 
I thought chill might be a winner on this one too!! as I too thought it was that lane....I wander if you were near? ::15:
 
No one asked, but since you have, I can say not near, but not very far away ... the question is, in what direction? wink#
 
It is just that I had to use this one when levelling for a property in town many moons ago.
 
What about the wall past the tennis club to Trewithan Road that we used to know as Well Fields?
 
There used to be at least three old bench Marks along that Path, but no more, the closest one is at Alverne Hill, I still know it as Well Fields. But, not there A lass.
 

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