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Hy Davy.

Taken around the time of the coronation of King Edward VII
Isaac and Arthur Fuzzey and John Fuzzey is also listed in Kelly's Directory. Also undertakers.

Ice Cream Seller at Fairground

Ice Cream seller at the fair, swing boats in the 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.

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…

Indentifierof artist for the following two sketches, likely Laura Knight

793 Ft long 1573 passengers

Conductor Harrr Oxland

Men, woman, children in background

Apocalypse of Silos, Beatus world map, with Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden The Mediterranean Sea is represented by a line in the centre, the Red Sea by a vertical line. The land is surrounded by water with fish swimming all…

A map showing the Mediterranean area. The map is oriented with east to the top with the British Isles are in the bottom left corner and India and Sri Lanka at the top.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. COT.MS.B.V. fol 56 Anglo Saxon Map Pt…

Cosmas was a Greek mapmaker and monk living in the 6th century. This image shows 4 men standing on the cardinal points, their feet touching, thus proving to Cosmas that they couldn't all be upright.
The slide is labelled "The Plans of Cosmas - The…

This world map occupies two pages of a manuscript and is oriented with the East at the top where a framed picture of Adam, Eve and Serpent can be seen. Ethiopia and Libya are identified and the Mediterranean is a narrow channel rising from the…

The Catalan Map is medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s, it has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language.
This image is a fragment of the whole.

Double page (pp 92 & 93) from "The Voyage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt."
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an…

The world map of the atlas attached to Marino Sanudo's "Liber secretorum fidelium Crucis". He sent it to the Vatican in 1321 and it is still there as MS. Vat. Lat. 2972 at the Vatican Library. It was probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte in 1320.

Ancient hand-drawn map of Albi, from the middle of the eighth century. This map of the world is painted on a rather thick parchment, in goatskin or sheepskin. It represents the world in the form of a horseshoe centred around the Mediterranean, (the…