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Turn of Century photo of mail-carrying Horse Bus

Typical horse-ploughing scene.

PREVREF 2161 duplicate

Bound for Logan Rock & Lands End

1920s Albion binding reaper scene recreated in 1970. Sovereign, Baron and Prince wait with their 1920s Albion binding reaper while 'croust' is served by Diana Flowers.

1970 recreation of a 1920s scene. Typical horse-drawn binding reaper. The bound sheaves were collected and up-ended to dry out in 'shooks' of about a dozen sheaves. Part of a row can be seen on the right of the photograph. One sheaf has just been…

Horse team hauling rail wagons engaged on clearing surplus soil preliminary to china clay workings.

Carclaze china clay drying sheds with wagons and horses.

A copy of a postcard depicting the loading of china clay from cars and chute to a ship in Charlestown Harbour, St Austell.

ECC Copyright. Photo copied from a postcard

The owner, holding the horse, was J.H. Williams, known locally as Joe Bun.

The Battery on Battery Rocks visible. St Marys Church has half a Spire

A typical scene of china clay wagons, their contents being loaded onto trucks at the St Austell terminus of the Pentewan Railway for onward transmission to the port for shipment. The section of the railway track was lifted in 1916, but some remains…