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What was Peaks boat building yard outside the Tolcarne inn - hence all the wood in amongst the rubble of the sea wall.

Sea side of the Tolcarne Inn. Sea wall completely demolished.

H.N. Peakes' boat building area wrecked.

showing the damage

The nuns are from the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary order. In the back row, the first on the left is Sister St John, the second is Sister Bernard, and the sixth is Sister Francis Saviour. the latter two were actually family…

The following information was kindly supplied by Peter Everest, Curator and Librarian of the Henry Mitchel Memorial Museum, Hayle, in October 2024.

" This is an Oddfellows meeting of the Riviera Lodge of Past Grand at Redruth. The Lodge still…

Note the St Aubyn Uniform

Large group of people, some wearing sashes and regalia, standing in the grounds of a large house