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Typical church entrance stile showing the slate slab on which the coffin was rested whilst the bearers sat on the side seats to await the conducting priest. This 1898 photo shows Tintagel Church. St.Materiana's church.

Grid reference, SX 0506…

Typical style in granite areas of Cornwall
Grid reference (of the church), SW 5052 3303
For further information, see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6370&resourceID=1020

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A combined stile and bridge crossing the stream at Lamorna Cove near Penzance.

Stiles. Showing the obvious hazard of the Cornish stile after a fall of snow. On a footpath leading to Newlyn. The harbour and lighthouse pier can be seen against a sullen late-afternoon sky.

King William IV pub in Madron.

The Pirate Inn on Alverton Road, a Courage house with newly-painted sign showing the traditional tough-looking 'Pirate' just ashore from the moored vessel in the background.

Mr W Balkwell, a postman in Merton near Okehampton, standing in front of an ivy-covered stone doorway to the post office, about to start his rounds. He wears a satchel over his shoulder and is holding some post. The sign above the post office door…

A young woman holding an old E Berliner's gramophone record - Angel Record Orchestra Trocadero Linares - in Brian Taylor's Plymouth antique shop.

A young enthusiast listens to a recording from an early cylinder record in Brian Taylor's Plymouth antique shop.

A young woman poses with a vintage portable gramophone and some Durium records, in Brian Taylor's antique shop in Plymouth.

Brian Taylor with one of several vintage gramophones in his antique shop at Plymouth. Note the dog 'Nipper' trademark on the side of the base and box of needles on the turntable.

Photo of painting of horse and cart collecting seaweed at Porthcurno

Shows powerful & dangerous undertow of sea on many Cornish beaches following winter storms.