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A close-up photo of the blue 'Obby 'Oss in Padstow, 1982.

Refreshment for the 'Oss. A bottle of beer is fed into the breather hold as the 'Oss takes a brief break en route!

"When was Camborne? When Redruth presented Parwith Double boys." These cards were popular in Cornwall and Devon during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Reproduction of a postcard grin the First and Last Inn in Land's End showing words to old song thought to have originated about 1910.

Blackbird Song

Oi knows where that blackbird be,
Oi knows where ee be .. (bu---r)

Ee Be in Yon wurzel…

Engraving of a cobbled street with the church tower behind.
with bow fronted shops and small group of people.

St Austell church. Grid reference, SX 0141 5245

For further information see Historic Environment Record,…

A photographic postcard depicting a man eating limpets with the caption, "Eat limpets and live. Everything all kiff with Cousin Jack". "All Kiff" was a common term used by miners when writing home from abroad. It is thought to have been a distorted…

Caerhays Castle in Gorran, St Austell

'Hip Hop' graffiti on a wall in Morrab Place (March 1985)

Richards Photo. In the hamlet of Roseworthy, approximately 2 miles west of Camborne on the A30 trunk road (London-Penzance), shortly to be realigned. This cottage and No. 21 were photographed shortly before being demolished.

Richards Photo. Cottages demolished for road widening

Penzance's Corpus Christi Fair in 1923, showing at least 10 engines belonging to Hancock, Jones and Anderson & Rowland.

Corpus Christi Fair in Penzance (1920 or 1921)

Anderton & Rowland's Diving Dolphins roundabout

Fair on Plymouth Hoe. (2 copies of same print)

Venetian Gondola at Bridgwater Fair in 1969

(D Giles and P Coles - names on back of photo?)

These were some of the largest machines ever seen in Britain up to that date. This example, pictured at Southport, was the largest permanent Fair Ride in Britain up to 1900. Holidaymakers rode in suspended car which swung out as the speed of the ride…

Three men sitting on the edge of a roundabout, with 'The Magnificent Marenghi' truck in the background.

A youthful fairground enthusiast steals away from the dancing to admire Captain, one of a set of 'gallopers' built in 1921 by Messrs Thomas Walker of Tewkesbury.