Donkey and Duckpond
Animals
Location near Lamorna Mill
Margaret Orchard
Morrab Library
c.1900
Morrab Library
35mm Slide
Photograph
ORCH.SL.0040
Lamorna Mill
Old Cornish Fish Sellers
People
Two local Newlyn characters, identified as Billy Renfree and Blanche Courtney with their Donkey named Dear Beauty
Morrab Library
c. 1905
Morrab Library
Postcard
Photograph
PEOP.PC.004
Newlyn
Woman fish jowster with donkey cart
Fishing
The postcard entitled "Fresh Pilchards" depicts a woman fish jowster sitting atop her donkey cart holding a mackerel.
c.1910
Postcard
FISH.PC.010
St Ives
Two Men in Donkey and Trap of Jingle, 1920
Donkey
Angove
1920
Morrab library
Print
TRANS 8.223
Cornwall
Fish Vendor Lizzie Boynes on her Donkey Cart
Cendor
Donkey Fish Postcard
Anno WorkW IBP
A postcard (and photo copy of the postcard), postmarked Camborne Nov 30, 1906, which is captioned, 'Fresh Pilchards', and depicts a woman sitting in a cart pulled by a donkey, with baskets of fish in the cart with her. The woman pictured is actually Lizzy Boynes, a resident of Mousehole, selling mackerel. This information was given to Richard Angove in the 1950s by an elderly Mousehole resident who was then 90 years old. He remembered Lizzie Boynes living in Mousehole as, he said, did several others at that time. She and her donkey were well-known in the district at the time.
The postcard is addressed to Miss B Turner, East Charles St., Camborne, and transcript of the message on the postcard is as follows:
"Dear Miss Turner, Will you oblidge <sic> me by making my blouse by Thursday next as I am thinking of going away and what I have the colours won't match what I want to wear with it, by so doing you will oblidge <sic>.
- A Hill"
Angove
Morrab Library
c. 1900
Morrab Library
Postcard
OCC 4.002
Mousehole