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BUILD 8.059.tif
St Buryan Church, pictured with two horse-carriages in front, both full of people. Sign on the right side for St Buryan Hotel. (Photo donated by E. Richards, 6/7/1980)

Grid referece, SW 4091 2571
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TRANS 8.226.tif
P O Copyright. Women Drivers & Grooms formed into a Corps to man the Mail Van during 14-18 War

IND 8.004.tif
Loading china clay from a horse and cart onto a ship in Penzance.

FARM 8.022.tif
A horse-hauled clod crusher used for cultivation (used from about 1900), A typical country scene in Cornwall.

FARM 8.023.tif
Typical late-afternoon scene in almost any Cornish scene in the 1920s or '30s. The machine is a cultivator, known all over Cornwall as a 'scuffler'. The height of the tines is adjustable through the handle on the driver's right.

BRIDG 6.002.tif
A photo of London Bridge with a paddle steamer. Railway and other carriers' wagons dominate the horse-drawn traffic crossing London Bridge in 1890. Motor vehicles were still a doubtful and mistrusted form of transport. Even the buses here are…

ANIM 4.001.tif
John the horse owned by Mr Rowe of St Austell is seven years old. Here he carries 4 1/2 cwt of harness including 146 bells and 700 pieces of brasswork. PREVREF 2127 duplicate

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OCC 4.003.tif
Milk float with woman driver.

SHIP 4.037.tif
Horse-drawn lifeboat in street with spectators.

SHIP 4.038.tif
Newquay lifeboat being hauled on Lifeboat Day.

ANIM 4.002.tif
Sam Pinney aged two leading two horses
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