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Antiquarian and Liberal Politician.
Born at Castle Horneck, Penzance, the only son of Samuel Borlase and his wife Mary Ann (nee Copeland).
His great great grandfather was Dr. William Borlase, Cornish Historian.

Probably Newlyn

Probably Fragdon

The world map of the atlas attached to Marino Sanudo's "Liber secretorum fidelium Crucis". He sent it to the Vatican in 1321 and it is still there as MS. Vat. Lat. 2972 at the Vatican Library. It was probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte in 1320.

Beach scene with baskets and fish boxes.
Wagons and boats and boys in the foreground

Slide is labelled "The World according to Cosmas, with the walls and arch of Heaven. Above the Creator surveying his works. The rising and setting sun are moving round the mountain in the north."

Men with baskets of fish landing from small boats.
Harbour wall behind

Illustrated Map of Spain and Britain, probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte for Marino Sanuto.
Slide is labelled "Brit. Mus. add ms 27376"

This page is annotated 'Agnes from EAA 1883'

Slide is labelled "The Plans of Cosmas The Present and Antediluvian Worlds, with Ocean between"
Cosmas was a map maker from the 6th century.

The Catalan Map is medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s, it has been described as the most important map of the Middle Ages in the Catalan language.
This image is a fragment of the whole.

Map from 13th century reproduced across two pages of a book.

Madaba mosaic map from 16th century

Coloured print.
H.Simpson written on the back

St Clares School panoramic photograph 1961

St Clares School 1963 - Panoramic Photograph

Elderly Gentleman

Waterloo Hotel