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Photocopy from printed postcard. Not scanned.

Peter Hosking used to blow the Fog Horn until 1939 before it was electrified

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St Ives fish market on the harbour. Baskets of fish pictured.

Photocopy from printed postcard. Not scanned.

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The 'First and Last' Refreshment House in England (at Land's End). Pictured with two men outside, one entering.

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SCAPE 9.027 IS A POOR PHOTOCOPY SCAPE 9.027A IS FROM A NEGATIVE COPY Fishing boats on the slip at Sennen, featuring a thatched cottage, the lifeboat house, Sennen Cove Hotel and the Round House.

Photocopy from printed postcard. Not scanned.

Photocopy from printed postcard. Not scanned.

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DUPLICATE OF ENT4.048

Redruth (Cornwall) Gladiator Club's 52-key Verbeeck fairground organ purchased from Pontefract, Yorkshire, in 1985 and incorporated into a rebuilt box body onto a lorry chassis by its present owners. They later toured…

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ENT 4.060.tif
Stithians 100th Show, animals and fair. Photo of a photo.

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Three men standing in front of Steven Rowland's Mini Waltzer, with one presenting a cheque to another.

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Jimmy Trezise, Penzance, barber, with some of the steam engines he has painted over the years. PREVREF 1958 Exhibited at a Steam Nostalgia Show1870-1934.

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Originally used to decoy wildfowl, Porthgwarra Fowling Pool on the clifftop near Tol Pedn (more generally known as Gwennap Head) Coastguard Station, was cleaned out and used as a model yacht pool in the 1960s. Here, Good Friday was a prominent date.

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Hellesveor Pool, St Ives. On the western outskirts of the town, at the junction of the Nancledra and Zennor Roads, this was a well-known Good Friday boat-sailing venue.

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Photo of a postcard featuring three children and a snowman in a snowy scene with the inscription, 'A merry Christmas'. Folded cards as we know them now did not emerge until the 1920s-'30s. This card, carrying a King Edward VII green half-penny stamp…
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