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The original performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (including Rowena Cade) at Crean, St Buryan on 23 August 1929.

Set of postcards of Otterton Mill

Horse team hauling rail wagons engaged on clearing surplus soil preliminary to china clay workings.

Taken at Stetten on the Swiss-German border. Not a superb photograph but it may be useful. The land here is in narrow strips as when the owner dies his land is divided among his children. A daughter with land is much sought-after as a…

Richard Angove is in photo

Oxen at work. Turn of the century (1900) harvest scene. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934.

PREVREF 2184 & 2186 duplicates

Padstow 'Obby 'Oss street parade in the spring of 1983.

A close-up photograph of the blue 'Obby 'Oss and teazer at Padstow's 'Obby 'Oss dance, in 1982.
(two copies of this photo)

Men painting the side of an unknown ship.

PREVREF 1253 duplicate of this photo

One of the last Goods Trains on this Newham Quay spur. The Track was lifted soon after photo was taken. Locomotive fitted with a spark arrestor.

PREVREF No 877 is duplicate of this photo

The Paris Hotel in Coverack. In May 1899, the New York registered 10,000-ton liner Paris went aground at Lowland Point, Coverack in May 1899. This hotel (the Devenish House) in the village carries the ships name.

SEE SHIP 9.009

Parkandillick engine house with the clay works in the background.

China Clay Works Valve Gear & Hotwell Pump Copyright ECCG Ref 5197

25000 Tons 500 Passengers 350 Crew. Usually covered the Scandinavian area.