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Tommy Nicholls and Charlie Rowe, two of the staff of John Peak & Son pictured in the shop doorway of 4 Causeway Head, Penzance, in the 1930s. The shop was later extended to incorporate adjoining shops. One man is wearing braces, the other a cap.…

Horse team hauling Newquay lifeboat back up the beach road after practice launching. Note men on either side with shovels having spread ashes in the route.

A typical scene of china clay wagons, their contents being loaded onto trucks at the St Austell terminus of the Pentewan Railway for onward transmission to the port for shipment. The section of the railway track was lifted in 1916, but some remains…

The Battery on Battery Rocks visible. St Marys Church has half a Spire

The owner, holding the horse, was J.H. Williams, known locally as Joe Bun.

ECC Copyright. Photo copied from a postcard

A copy of a postcard depicting the loading of china clay from cars and chute to a ship in Charlestown Harbour, St Austell.

Carclaze china clay drying sheds with wagons and horses.

Horse team hauling rail wagons engaged on clearing surplus soil preliminary to china clay workings.

1970 recreation of a 1920s scene. Typical horse-drawn binding reaper. The bound sheaves were collected and up-ended to dry out in 'shooks' of about a dozen sheaves. Part of a row can be seen on the right of the photograph. One sheaf has just been…

1920s Albion binding reaper scene recreated in 1970. Sovereign, Baron and Prince wait with their 1920s Albion binding reaper while 'croust' is served by Diana Flowers.

Bound for Logan Rock & Lands End

Typical horse-ploughing scene.

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