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  • Collection: Angove Collection

SCAPE 8.043.tif
Where the first cables were laid to form the basic structure that formed the world-wide telecommunications network.

SCAPE 8.033.tif
St Agnes

IND 8.017.tif
Black and white photo of a painting.
Built 1799 destroyed in Freak Flood 1894. The Great Zennor Flood which swept down valley. The mill was empty at the time, waiting for the new owner.

SHIP 8.067.tif
Clipper bow steam yacht and other boats in Penzance. In First World War, it became HMS Argon in 1917.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Argus_(1904)

See PREVREF 1519

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SHIP 4.029.tif
Clipper bow steam yacht and other boats in Penzance

This print is laterally reversed. See 1532

FARM 8.022.tif
A horse-hauled clod crusher used for cultivation (used from about 1900), A typical country scene in Cornwall.

Built by Mr Bolley of Herstmonceaux Sussex. Took 12 years

MIN 6.007.tif
In the 19th century, large quantities of arsenic were refined and exported to the Americas for use against the boll weevil which was then threatening to destroy American cotton crops. After heat treatment, the arsenic was ground in a mill similar…

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