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Group watching birds on Polgigga Pond
Family groups watching birds on Polgigga Pond.
PREVREF 1876 duplicate
PREVREF 1876 duplicate
Children in Victorian Clothes Hoops & Skipping
Children dressed in Victorian costumes, playing with hoops and skipping ropes.
Flora Day children's 10am Dance
Helston Furry Dance at Flora Day, 1982. The children's 10am dance rounds the corner into Wendron Street.
Flora Day Children's Dance
The Children's Dance on Helston Flora Day, 1970
St Levan School Group A Johns Master. Names on photo back
St Levan School group photo.
St Levan School group photo
St Levan School group photo.
St Levan School Group. Names on photo back
St Levan School group photo
School Group of Girls. PG Rowe. Names on photo
St Levan School group of schoolgirls
School Group. Names on photo back
St Levan School group photo
Pre-folded Edward VII Christmas Card 1/2p Post
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…
Christmas Card Children with Puddings & Toys
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…
Victorian Children playing See-Saw
Victorian children with their pet Jack Russell terrier enjoy a ride on a simple seesaw balanced on a sawn-off tree trunk.
Victorian Child & Model of Mounts Bay Lugger
A Victorian youngster proudly presents his home-made model of a Mount's Bay lugger (a Cornish fishing boat of the period), as some of the same rig can be seen in the background.
Two Young Boys with Dinky Toy Models Buses Lorry
Two young boys with Dinky Toy models of buses and lorries.
Boy with Dinky Toy Models Lorries Bulldozer
Young boy playing with Dinky Toy models of lorries and bulldozers.
Surface Workers Refining Tin St Ives Consols
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,…
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,…
Ice Cream Vendor Hand Barrow & Customer
An ice cream vendor with hand barrow and children customers. Picture from 'Grandfathers London' (Putnam, 4 Great Russell Street, 1956/61), see page 34.
Ice Cream Vendor with Hand Drawn Cart Pz Prom
A typical hand-propelled ice cream wagon of the early decades of the 20th century. Pictured on the Penzance Promenade at the bottom of Morrab Road in the 1920s, it was owned by the Scoble family who were well-known ice cream makers of the era. The…
Sam Pinney aged two leading two horses
Sam Pinney aged two leading two horses
Mare & Foal with Richard Hoskin and Amanda Williams
Mare named Margaret at Devonshire Horse Centre