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Double image
Above -Serpentine Factory built for London Company ran on Steam, later site of Italian Gardens created by Bedford Bolitho
Below - Photograph of painting of Fishing Boats in Newlyn Harbour
Both images pinned to a board

Note brick pile and vehicles in yard

Three men in yard of Gas Works
Note large coal heap on right

Note Scaffolding and Ladder

Note Scaffolding and open gates to yard

Looking from Penzance Gas Works Site across Harbour
Note large amount of demolition and rubble in yard

The identity of the man in the photo was confirmed by his grandson. 2021-04
See also IND 16HG 020

See IND 16 HG 019, where the man welding was identified by his grandson as Harry Scrase 2021-04
Possibly Queen Street, Penzance

The Windmill on Buzza Hill built 1821, note man in foreground.
Image shows a postcard on a white pinboard.
Caption on postcard reads " The Windmill" Buzza Hill, Scilly. Built 1821 Used nearly 100 years, Gibson, Scilly IslesCopyright"

Small Reservoir built 1757 supplied Penzance until 1851
Smithy and smelting works chimneys , Chyandour, Penzance.

This half plate glass negative is of two photographs pinned to a board, presumably to make copies.

At its prime 180 Men 48 Boys & 17 Women worked at the Mine Inferior version of IND 16HF 025, damaged and fuzzy

Central Rod of Man Engine broke with fatal results Monday October 201919. Newspaper Cutting

Gear Mine on the slopes of Trink Hill
Giew Mine closed 1922 see Williamd G a history of Giew Mine, journalof Trevithick Society No.11 1984. Cornish Studies Library Redruth.

Report 2 July 1959 Cornishman - A K Hamilton Jenkin 'Local Traditionof old Iron Mine V IV