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Joe Rowland's roundabout of elephants at Helston Fair in 1977.

The Big Bass Drum of Helston Town Band pictured with Helston Mayor on Flora Day in 1982. Helston Town Band is divided into two sections and augmented for some of the big Dances when the numbers may tail back for a hundred yards or more.

Carnival rides: Helter Skelter, Crazy Cakewalk and Flying Circus.

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)…

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)…

Henry Jones's Burreell no 2759, the 'King George VI', with dynamo.

Copyright David Wills

The High Flyer ride at fair. 'Mind You Hold Tight' and 'Ride of the Fair' signs depicted.

Hill & Enderby Engineers, Ltd. in Long Rock. Pictured with man in front on small truck.

The historic Huer's Hut in Newquay, pictured in the 1930s with two women. This is one of the few well-preserved relics of the bygone age of seining. The hut was built on clifftop and used by fishermen to spot shoals of fish such as pilchards and…

Opened in 1982

HMS Gladiator, which was sold to a Dutch firm for £15,000 in May of 1909. She was wrecked at Yarmouth in April 1908 and raised and taken to Portsmouth in October of the same year. She is seen here in the care of three tugs, one on each side and one…

Warspite on tow to Breakers broke tow from Tug Buster

Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

Built 1977 cost £2M. Passenger capacity 600