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This sunset photograph of the ruins of Wheal Coates was taken by Tony Giles, the well-known Cornish artist. The ruins are situated within a mile of Langley Cottage, St Agnes, where Giles lived with his schoolteacher wife Hilary.

St Ives Consols showing children at work.

Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting,…

Drawn portrait with newspaper obituary. Born: Renfrew, Scotland, 9th January 1821, died: Lee, Kent, 20th March 1891.

A diesel engine at Swindon railway works. 1980.

Men looking at a crankshaft on a 1980 visit to Swindon Works.

Swindon rail works with a man and woman sitting in front of a steam engine.

Switchback Noah's Ark, with spectators.

Pagoda Type Galvanized Iron Waiting Room

Tater Du Lighthouse. One of Britain's newest lighthouses, opened by HRH the Duke of Gloucester in July 1965. Situated between Penzance and Land's End, it's 300,000 cp light and 72-speaker foghorn are remotely operated by The Trinity House Depot at…

Alf Whiteleggs "Golden Gallopers" with 89 Key "Merenghi" Organ

Bodrugan Farm

Team of oxen working on Bodrugan Farm at Portmellon near Mevagissey, with the beach in the background.

Bodrugan Farm PREVREF 2199 duplicate

Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.