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Replaced Solid Tyred Buses in 1928. Transferred to Western National when it started in 1929 PREVREF 1836 same details

Driver is the late Mr Reg Wilton. TRANS 8.195 duplicate

Driver is the late Mr Reg Wilton. TRANS 6.141 duplicate

Buckingham body. First luxury ride after short wheelbased solid-tyred buses used on Cornish Services since 1900. All buses transferred in 1929 to form Western National.

Maudslay car in front of Grand House

Maudslay ML3 was typical of the types which dominated Cornish routes in the 1920s. Guy chassis and Buckingham saloon body.

Mawnan Church.

Grid reference, SW 7877 2723

For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6379&resourceID=1020

These were some of the largest machines ever seen in Britain up to that date. This example, pictured at Southport, was the largest permanent Fair Ride in Britain up to 1900. Holidaymakers rode in suspended car which swung out as the speed of the ride…

Mary Louisa Browne was born in 1858 in Rangoon, Bengal, India to Horace Albert Browne and Louisa Fanny Algeo Moresby.
She married William Jordan Cummings in Rangoon in 1877. He was a Col. in the Royal Engineers and died in 1908.
They had one…

A stall in Penzance selling May Hornes with a group of onlookers possibly family members.

Crowning the May Queen at Paul. Queen - Valerie Stephens on her R. Gill Trahair. Vicar Rev Tyrrel.

On left hand side of Causeway Head, No 31
Last day of trading July 1973

With C. Harry

Mr & Mrs Alfred Beckerleg

Possibly bandsmen of Territorial Army