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Lavin Draper Causewayhead , Penzance

Leonora Trehair, known as Nora, worked closely with Archibald Quilter at the Ritz Cinema in Queen Street, Penzance. She started as a cashier, was promoted to assistant manageress, before becoming manageress when Mr Quilter retired. The Ritz was then…

Photograph of the prize winners at Lescudjack School Speech Day.
N.B. The large picture on the right of the Kugelbake, (a historic beacon) situated in Cuxhaven, Germany. Penzance is twinned with Cuxhaven

Lescudjack towards Harbour Snow 1891 blizzard G H.

Letter from William Wordsworth to Hugh Seymour Tremenheere neg only.

Letter from William Wordsworth to Hugh Seymour Tremenheere neg only.

Letter from William Wordsworth to Hugh Seymour Tremenheere neg only.

Letter from William Wordsworth to Hugh Seymour Tremenheere neg only.

Invited to be a Cornish Baird.

Mine Winding & Pumping Houses Head of Skip Shaft Rest Engine Trev Soc

Levant Mine Winding Engine Harveys of Hayle P L 93.

Made by Harveys of Hayle 1840.

Purser, Major Dick White (centre)
Mine Captain, Nathan White (left) and Valentine Corin at door of Count House Levant . Valentine Corin father of John.

Life-boat Richard Lewis launching Abbey Slip O N 95.

Lifeboat Hayle probably the Launching ceremony on the Quay watched by crowd men one side ladies on the other.

Lifeboat 'The Covent Garden' mounted on launching trolley,crew posing with oars. St Ives harbour with a large collection of tall ships.

Lifeboat launching ropes and men ' Daphne Pearce' St Ives Lifeboat Station CP24.

Light cruiser R.N. Diomedes having seen considerable Service between 1939-1945 whilst on the way to the scrap yard had drifted onto a reef off Larrigan beach Penzance whilst sheltering in the Bay. 08.05.1946.. refloated and continued journey to…

Light Infantry Regimental Association, West Cornwall Branch. A group of veterans wearing medals on the steps of St John's Hall. Including: Peter Michell, 2nd row, second from the left and Peter Tresidder, centre front row.