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"
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
Miss B Turner
A. Hill