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Punch and Judy: One of the earliest road shows and still a firm favourite with children. Here Mum waits with sandwiches whilst the fascinated youngsters are enchanted by Dan Bishop's show on the beach at Sennen Cove near Land's End.

Pavilion in unidentified garden.

Ground Floor at Parkandillick showing levers and trip latches. Photo by Engish China Clay No.5198.

Boiler being hauled to Dolcoath by 10 horses in the days before traction engines.

A horse and jingle (a loosely sprung, two-wheeled, roofed carriage, usually used as a hackney coach), pictured in a 12-foot pumping engine cylinder in Hayle. This was a pumping engine cylinder for the Cruquius steam pumping station in Holland, which…

Horse-drawn 'whim' or winding drum at Geevor tin mine at Pendeen, near St Just. These were commonly used in Cornwall's mines until the early 20th century when they were replaced by steam engines. Traces of the circular cobbled or flagged tracks can…

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The ruins of Levant Mine, showing Headgear engine house.

Men surveying on the surface at Levant Mine, with a theodolite.

Note bunches of candles being carried for work underground.

Bill Semmens, Will Nicholls, Jim Nicholls, John Williams, B J Keast The power to work the tin Buddle was by a pony trap wheel & "bully beef" tins created the driving power when filled with water. Boys wages 7/6d per week.

Traction Engines towing a beam for 90" cylinder engine from Grenville to South Crofty

An early photograph of Levant Mine before the 1899 construction of Pendeen Lighthouse.

Top Chamber on the day East Pool closed in 1954. Engine built by Harveys of Hayle 1892 with a 52 ton beam or "bob". William Jelbart helped to build the engine in 1892