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Wheal Bellan Mine. Pipes fed water under building from leat higher up the Valley. High speed small water wheel called Pelton Wheel used to generate compressed air or electricity. Only base remained, as of 1996.

Woman standing, looking at ruins of Wheal Sally.

MAY DAY PADSTOW

The West of England Steam Engine Societys 28th Annual Rally featuring a 1937 Ruston Hornsby Type HR 35 hp stationary engine owned by Michael Edwards of Pendeen, Cornwall.

Up the hill to the station. Taking two tankers and a box-car to join a mixed goods train at Falmouth station in the 1960's.

Built in 1929

Darlington or Stockton Station

Harness Horse Collars Saddles

A Typical and Propelled Ice Cream Cart of the early decades of the 20th century. Pictured on Penzance promenade in 1920s. It was owned by the Scoble family, well known ice-cream makers of the era.. The gilded headboard read, 'Scoble's Ices,…

Night-time photograph of the entrance to the Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, as seen from the footplate.

Two year-old Sam Pinney straining at the rope to bring in his father's two horses. Photographed at Egremont Farm, near Honiton ,Devon.

Sam Pinney aged two leading two horses