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Children dressed in Victorian costumes, playing with hoops and skipping ropes.

A photo of a Christmas card. Staged scenes such as this were sold as Christmas cards in the early days. Christmas hampers dispatched by rail from London and other big town stores were unreturnable and often given to the children to play with. This…

Albert Mellor pictured with his order at Helston Flora in 1978, when he was about 85 years of age. Note the NSPCC and National Lifeboat Institution fundraising signs, as well as many others stuck on a piece of cardboard.

A photo collage made up from clips from comics, including such well-remembered weeklies as TIGER TIM'S, RAINBOW, CHICK'S OWN, FUNNY WONDER, LOT-O-FUN, COMIC CUTS and many others.

A photo of a Christmas card card featuring Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus in the stable with the inscription, 'A Joyous Yuletide'. Folded cards as we know them now did not emerge until well into the present century. Cards like this were then in…

Taken from R Angoves Door New Years Eve 1978.

Photo of a postcard featuring three children and a snowman in a snowy scene with the inscription, 'A merry Christmas'. Folded cards as we know them now did not emerge until the 1920s-'30s. This card, carrying a King Edward VII green half-penny stamp…

Hellesveor Pool, St Ives. On the western outskirts of the town, at the junction of the Nancledra and Zennor Roads, this was a well-known Good Friday boat-sailing venue.

Originally used to decoy wildfowl, Porthgwarra Fowling Pool on the clifftop near Tol Pedn (more generally known as Gwennap Head) Coastguard Station, was cleaned out and used as a model yacht pool in the 1960s. Here, Good Friday was a prominent date.

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Jimmy Trezise, Penzance, barber, with some of the steam engines he has painted over the years. PREVREF 1958 Exhibited at a Steam Nostalgia Show1870-1934.

Three men standing in front of Steven Rowland's Mini Waltzer, with one presenting a cheque to another.

Stithians 100th Show, animals and fair. Photo of a photo.

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Redruth (Cornwall) Gladiator Club's 52-key Verbeeck fairground organ purchased from Pontefract, Yorkshire, in 1985 and incorporated into a rebuilt box body onto a lorry chassis by its present owners. They later toured…

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Photocopy from printed postcard. Not scanned.

Photocopy from printed postcard. Not scanned.

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