Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. She was purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her…
RMS Mauretania (Cunard), built by Swan Hunter Ltd., in Newcastle-on-Tyne, weighting 31,950 tons. The Mauretania served on the North Atlantic run from 1907 to 1935 and is probably the most famous and best-remembered of all the Atlantic…
Typical late-afternoon scene in almost any Cornish scene in the 1920s or '30s. The machine is a cultivator, known all over Cornwall as a 'scuffler'. The height of the tines is adjustable through the handle on the driver's right.