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St Buryan Summer Steam and Agricultural Rally.

St Buryan Summer Steam and Agricultural Rally

St Buryan, one of Cornwall's tallest church towers, makes an impressive backdrop for the summer steam and agricultural rally.

From Album 3 (Red)

Anderton & Rowland's Cyclone Twist at Summercourt Fair. (M. DeVey)

Foreground: Peper's swings.

Middleground: T Whiteleggs Easyrider, Tom Rowlands Dodgems.

Background (Left to Right): A James Big Wheel, D Rowlands Waltzers, J Rowlands Big Wheel & Waltzer.

From Album 3 (Red)
Coombe Lane is close to Treneere

looking towards Jubilee Pool

Attended by Lillian Evelyn Stevens.

Sunset over the Wheal Coates mine engine house.

Sunset over Gull Rock and Portreath.

Sunset over the Isles of Scilly.

Sunset over the sea nr. Isles of Scilly.

This sunset photograph of the ruins of Wheal Coates was taken by Tony Giles, the well-known Cornish artist. The ruins are situated within a mile of Langley Cottage, St Agnes, where Giles lived with his schoolteacher wife Hilary.

Written on the back by Serena Wadham:
'While supporters of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child wait to lobby their Members of Parliament, they are leafletted by women & men supporting the liberal abortion laws'

St Ives Consols showing children at work.

Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting,…

Drawn portrait with newspaper obituary. Born: Renfrew, Scotland, 9th January 1821, died: Lee, Kent, 20th March 1891.