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A copy of a postcard depicting the loading of china clay from cars and chute to a ship in Charlestown Harbour, St Austell.

ECC Copyright. Photo copied from a postcard

The owner, holding the horse, was J.H. Williams, known locally as Joe Bun.

The Battery on Battery Rocks visible. St Marys Church has half a Spire

A typical scene of china clay wagons, their contents being loaded onto trucks at the St Austell terminus of the Pentewan Railway for onward transmission to the port for shipment. The section of the railway track was lifted in 1916, but some remains…

Horse team hauling Newquay lifeboat back up the beach road after practice launching. Note men on either side with shovels having spread ashes in the route.

Tommy Nicholls and Charlie Rowe, two of the staff of John Peak & Son pictured in the shop doorway of 4 Causeway Head, Penzance, in the 1930s. The shop was later extended to incorporate adjoining shops. One man is wearing braces, the other a cap.…

Mrs Linda Brezlin packing Standard Fireworks for dispatch to shops from their Huddersfield factory. (In 1988, Standard Fireworks was purchased by Black Cat Fireworks which brought an end to UK production. The Huddersfield site now houses the UK…

Denise Waters (left) and Kim Brodzinska (right) with just a few of the many types of fireworks produced at Huddersfield's Standard Fireworks factory. (In 1988, Standard Fireworks was purchased by Black Cat Fireworks which brought an end to UK…