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Map from The Boke of Idrography byJean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz. He was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer, born to a Scottish father and a French mother.
The slide is labelled "British Museum Bibl. Reg. 20 E. IX John Rotz. Book of…

A map showing the Mediterranean area. The map is oriented with east to the top with the British Isles are in the bottom left corner and India and Sri Lanka at the top.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. COT.MS.B.V. fol 56 Anglo Saxon Map Pt…

An ancient map of the world.
The slide is labelled "Strassburg 9th Century

Apocalypse of Silos, Beatus world map, with Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden The Mediterranean Sea is represented by a line in the centre, the Red Sea by a vertical line. The land is surrounded by water with fish swimming all…

The Contarini–Rosselli map was designed by Giovanni Matteo Contarini and engraved by Francesco Rosselli. It is a copper-engraved map and was published in Venice or Florence in 1506. Printed only a few years after Columbus, it shows the world from the…

Image is of a photograph pinned to a board

Subject is wearing a pale, checked jacket and is holding a lit cigarette ins right hand.

A woman and girl dodging incoming waves on a beach

The mayor is with the group. The vans are identified on the sides with Civil Defence Corps, Cornwall Division, Rescue Section.

In the window of the kiosk is a poster about Penzance Silver Band Sunday concerts in Morrab Gardens

The young people are wearing uniforms with a Lescudjack school badge, and are standing outside a train.

The briefcase being carried by a man has a label saying Club Cité.

Lescudjack (boys and girls) Council schools built 1914, opened in 1915…

View of the front of the shop which was on Market Jew St.