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Owned by Paul Antell of Dorset

Owned by Ron Bond of Chard Somerset

Alfords Engine driving ex Harry Laitys Machine

Three men (P Hosking, W Chapple and H Burrows) threshing
by steam engine at Roskestal. Croust time..

Machine owned by J&A Hosking St Buryan. See PREVREF 2065/6

Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in background

An ice cream vendor with hand barrow and children customers. Picture from 'Grandfathers London' (Putnam, 4 Great Russell Street, 1956/61), see page 34.

Jayne Thomas of Brixton samples some new flavours at the South Devon Catering Exhibition in early 1983.

ANOTHER COPY OF FARM 6.004
The Well is 50ft deep, clear cold water, never dries

ANOTHER PRINT OF FARM 8.006

A typical hand-propelled ice cream wagon of the early decades of the 20th century. Pictured on the Penzance Promenade at the bottom of Morrab Road in the 1920s, it was owned by the Scoble family who were well-known ice cream makers of the era. The…

Nine staples support this farm building on the roadside at Tredrossel near Portwrinkle. This building is approximately 20' x 12'.

From Grandfathers London

Typical donkey-hauled oil vender's cart. Oil was dispensed from 40 gallon drums. Note quart measure and funnel.

A postcard (and photo copy of the postcard), postmarked Camborne Nov 30, 1906, which is captioned, 'Fresh Pilchards', and depicts a woman sitting in a cart pulled by a donkey, with baskets of fish in the cart with her. The woman pictured is actually…