Fish Vendor Lizzie Boynes on her Donkey Cart

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Title

Fish Vendor Lizzie Boynes on her Donkey Cart

Subject

Cendor
Donkey Fish Postcard
Anno WorkW IBP

Description

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"

Publisher

Morrab Library

Date

c. 1900

Rights

Morrab Library

Format

Postcard

Identifier

OCC 4.002

Coverage

Mousehole

Original Format

postcard

Period Costume

N

Individual Names

Lizzie Boynes
Miss B Turner
A. Hill

Geolocation