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

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

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.

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"

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

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

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

Note Scaffolding and open gates to yard

Note Scaffolding and Ladder

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

Note brick pile and vehicles in yard

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

Sewing room of Knitting Factory. There was a knitting factory at Orchard Place, The Fradgan which burnt down in 1956/57. First woman on left facing camera possibly Phylis Lodey, known as Nanette.
Newlyn Archive offers the following information…

Possibly Tin Streaming Works at Rospeath Mine, Ludgvan.
Tin was processed & stamped
Info given by Mrs Ellis relative - lady in black Laura Bowden seamstress made curtains in Blue Room on the Mount
Photograph in image sellotaped to paper

Engraving showing Surface Workers Levant Mine
Signed bottom right corner "The Levant mime (sic) drawn and etched by AMP"
Word below possibly "Poltair"or "Pattern"

Levant Mine with various Surface Workings & Buildings
Image is of photograph pinned to a board.
"1 Cabinet" mirror written on mount above image