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A horse and jingle (a loosely sprung, two-wheeled, roofed carriage, usually used as a hackney coach), pictured in a 12-foot pumping engine cylinder in Hayle. This was a pumping engine cylinder for the Cruquius steam pumping station in Holland, which…

Horse-drawn 'whim' or winding drum at Geevor tin mine at Pendeen, near St Just. These were commonly used in Cornwall's mines until the early 20th century when they were replaced by steam engines. Traces of the circular cobbled or flagged tracks can…

Few people now can recall the annual visit of Henry Jones & Sons Fair to Halsetown where they built up in a crowded meadow among the cabbages and rows of peas, some 700 feet above St Ives and in the shadow of Rosewall (locally called Buttermilk)…

PHOTO WITH ANNOTATIONS
The power to work the Tin Buddle was by Pony Trap Wheel and Bully. Beef Tins created the Driving Power when filled with water. Wages for the boys were seven shilling and six-pence per week.
L -R: Bill Semmens; Will…

Norwegian Steam Ship Spes built 1918 loading Clay from Steam Lorries at Penzance
PHOTO COPIED FROM A BOOK

Steam Wagon owned by H D Pochin Ltd. of Leswidden China Clay Works near St Just. It carried 10 tons of China Clay to ships in Penzance

Second cropped photo

'Shrewsbury Knight', Own Steam Haulage Co. London NW2
Reg: GF 8655

Dual front Road Steering Wheels

Christopher at the wheel of Dr. W R Dykes (Callington) Wagon

Belonging to John and Jeff Horrell, Stoke Canon, Exeter.
Reg: UU 1283

Newquay Steam Beer Solid Tyres Purchased in 1971 11208

Joe & Dennis Warrens 1924 Foden purchased in 1971 11208

Joe & Dennis Warrens 1924 Foden purchased in 1971 11208

Mr & Mrs Raymond Hoskin on their Wedding Day

A typical water-binding team at turn of Century
6 working men posing
No 4913 Built by Welling Porter Ltd, Rochester, Kent

Steam Roller Camborne, Cornwall
Reg: DW 2166