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Construction of the ship heave-up slip at Newlyn, with houses in the background.

An artistic photograph of the sterns of two long line pilchard drivers in Newlyn, with reflections shown in the sea. Sepia.

Richards Photograph. Only House remaining since Spanish Raid.

In 1865, the Crowns mining complex was visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). These cliffside shafts were thereafter known as The Crowns. Holmans St Just supplied most machinery to them in their…

3 Edwards Sisters Martha Elwick Elizabeth Caddy & Mary Johns lookingWest towards Penzance. Shop in background owned by Annie Hosking then by Mrs Cullis then by Mrs Bennetts & Daughter Audrey (Mrs Ron Harvey)

A horse and jingle (a loosely sprung, two-wheeled, roofed carriage, usually used as a hackney coach), pictured in a 12-foot pumping engine cylinder in Hayle. This was a pumping engine cylinder for the Cruquius steam pumping station in Holland, which…

Horse-drawn 'whim' or winding drum at Geevor tin mine at Pendeen, near St Just. These were commonly used in Cornwall's mines until the early 20th century when they were replaced by steam engines. Traces of the circular cobbled or flagged tracks can…

Few people now can recall the annual visit of Henry Jones & Sons Fair to Halsetown where they built up in a crowded meadow among the cabbages and rows of peas, some 700 feet above St Ives and in the shadow of Rosewall (locally called Buttermilk)…

PHOTO WITH ANNOTATIONS
The power to work the Tin Buddle was by Pony Trap Wheel and Bully. Beef Tins created the Driving Power when filled with water. Wages for the boys were seven shilling and six-pence per week.
L -R: Bill Semmens; Will…

Norwegian Steam Ship Spes built 1918 loading Clay from Steam Lorries at Penzance
PHOTO COPIED FROM A BOOK

Steam Wagon owned by H D Pochin Ltd. of Leswidden China Clay Works near St Just. It carried 10 tons of China Clay to ships in Penzance

Second cropped photo

'Shrewsbury Knight', Own Steam Haulage Co. London NW2
Reg: GF 8655

Dual front Road Steering Wheels

Christopher at the wheel of Dr. W R Dykes (Callington) Wagon