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In Market Place, it was the first self-service store in Penzance

Traded for almost a Century. Demolished in 1950s.

In Market Jew Street?

Signs in Window for Furniss' Biscuits & one headed 'Emigrant(e)' of interest to out of work Miners.
Photo has been retouched.

Grapes from Heated Greenhouses sent to Queen Victoria. Pond & Green-houses now gone

A 19th century scene at Tincroft Mine in Carn Brea. The man and 'bal maidens' with their hammers and typical Cornish shovels broke down the large lumps or ore to prepare it for further crushing and washing when the tin and copper was later refined on…

A group of 'bal maidens' at Dolcoath who helped to "dress" or prepare the ores for crushing by the mills or stamps. Large numbers of women were employed in this way on all Cornish mines in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In fact, during the…

St Ives Consols showing children at work.

Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting,…

Ladies of the Post Office seen here operating at an early telephone exchange when all calls were connected by hand at every intermediate exchange.

Ladies of the Post Office seen here sorting telegrams which had been handed in at various counters, and sending them to the appropriate transmission points.

Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.

Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.

Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

A group of postwomen at Barnet. with their bicycles.

A woman wearing the original uniform for postwomen, issued 1915.

Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)

Three men outside large country house (unidentified location).