Modern copy of an old photo. Looking west towards Pz. In the distance on right is Star Inn. The Wooden Gable ended shop on the left is that of Mr Harvey who traded as a Basket Maker.
Typical late-afternoon scene in almost any Cornish scene in the 1920s or '30s. The machine is a cultivator, known all over Cornwall as a 'scuffler'. The height of the tines is adjustable through the handle on the driver's right.
RMS Mauretania (Cunard), built by Swan Hunter Ltd., in Newcastle-on-Tyne, weighting 31,950 tons. The Mauretania served on the North Atlantic run from 1907 to 1935 and is probably the most famous and best-remembered of all the Atlantic…