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P O Copyright. Women Drivers & Grooms formed into a Corps to man the Mail Van during 14-18 War

Loading china clay from a horse and cart onto a ship in Penzance.

A horse-hauled clod crusher used for cultivation (used from about 1900), A typical country scene in Cornwall.

Typical late-afternoon scene in almost any Cornish scene in the 1920s or '30s. The machine is a cultivator, known all over Cornwall as a 'scuffler'. The height of the tines is adjustable through the handle on the driver's right.

A photo of London Bridge with a paddle steamer. Railway and other carriers' wagons dominate the horse-drawn traffic crossing London Bridge in 1890. Motor vehicles were still a doubtful and mistrusted form of transport. Even the buses here are…

John the horse owned by Mr Rowe of St Austell is seven years old. Here he carries 4 1/2 cwt of harness including 146 bells and 700 pieces of brasswork. PREVREF 2127 duplicate

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Milk float with woman driver.

Horse-drawn lifeboat in street with spectators.

Newquay lifeboat being hauled on Lifeboat Day.

Sam Pinney aged two leading two horses

Mare named Margaret at Devonshire Horse Centre

Typical GWR Horse & "Town Wagon" at Fowey Station 1920s branch line axed in 1960s