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The Catalan Map is medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s, it has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language.
This image is a fragment of the whole.

This world map occupies two pages of a manuscript and is oriented with the East at the top where a framed picture of Adam, Eve and Serpent can be seen. Ethiopia and Libya are identified and the Mediterranean is a narrow channel rising from the…

Cosmas was a Greek mapmaker and monk living in the 6th century. This image shows 4 men standing on the cardinal points, their feet touching, thus proving to Cosmas that they couldn't all be upright.
The slide is labelled "The Plans of Cosmas - The…

A map showing the Mediterranean area. The map is oriented with east to the top with the British Isles are in the bottom left corner and India and Sri Lanka at the top.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. COT.MS.B.V. fol 56 Anglo Saxon Map Pt…

Apocalypse of Silos, Beatus world map, with Adam and Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden The Mediterranean Sea is represented by a line in the centre, the Red Sea by a vertical line. The land is surrounded by water with fish swimming all…

Men, woman, children in background

Conductor Harrr Oxland

793 Ft long 1573 passengers

Indentifierof artist for the following two sketches, likely Laura Knight

A typical hand-propelled ice cream wagon of the early decades of the 20th century. Pictured on the Penzance Promenade at the bottom of Morrab Road in the 1920s, it was owned by the Scoble family who were well-known ice cream makers of the era. The…

An ice cream vendor with hand barrow and children customers. Picture from 'Grandfathers London' (Putnam, 4 Great Russell Street, 1956/61), see page 34.

Ice Cream seller at the fair, swing boats in the background.

Ice Cream Seller at Fairground

Taken around the time of the coronation of King Edward VII
Isaac and Arthur Fuzzey and John Fuzzey is also listed in Kelly's Directory. Also undertakers.

Hy Davy.

Hutchens House Paul.

hut formation at iron age village.

A hut circle amongst the ferns on the slopes of Carn Brea.

Note the engine houses in the distance with their smoking chimneys, or stacks.