'Fashionable' Penzance...

Only a decade ago Penzance was a town on the skids. “There was a real sense of social deprivation,” says Matthew Barton, the town's head of sustainable development. “Had you walked through the centre of town then you'd have found it very rowdy, with lots of shop windows kicked in.”

But that was then: this is now. The 2008 version of Penzance is not as conspicuously wealthy as, say, Salcombe or Fowey, but it is most certainly trendy - in a gritty, Notting Hill circa late-1970s, kind of way... more>