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The new Cook's Kitchen Shaft at South Crofty mine, Pool, between Camborne and Redruth.
Production of tin has (had) increased by almost 40,000 tonnes (1980) over last year's figures contributing substantially to the areas tin production which stands…

Blown down in Gale
Group posing

Overview

Image shows a partial photograph of a naval reservist pinned to a board.
Bushy handlebar moustache

Headstone at Humphry Davy's grave in Geneva, Switzerland.

Hea Corner , Heamoor Penzance.

The sign reads:

First line: J. Woolcock (?)
Second line: Pony Jingles & Tractors
Third line: Illegible
Fourth line: (first word/s partially obscured) Firewood

Panoramic school photograph

This hearth or forge feature has just been exposed during excavation within house 3 at Chysauster. The field wall in the background was removed by Kendrick and Hencken in about 1930.

Men at work

Steam engine

Design Office (?)

Heavy hammers assorted

Workers with a team of horses pulling a trailer containing a huge tank possibly to do with local mining/quarrying activity.