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Adverts for Union Castle Line & Westbourne Park Building Society PREVREF 1177 duplicate of this photo

Adverts for Union Castle Line & Westbourne Park Building Society

This entertainment consisted of a fairground organ and a stage with actors 'parading' on it.

The back of the photo is annotated:
"Hancock's Living Pictures bioscope show built up around the turn of the century. On the left can be seen Burrell…

Gavioli Fairground Organ on the right. Showmans Engine "The Cornishman" rear left. Price of admission 3d. Keling Gray's "Doncaster Butterscotch" advertised as 3 bars a penny.

CLOSE-UP OF ENT 8.037.
Picture taken when ride auctioned by Messrs Husseys of Exeter

'CHARLIE NICHOLLS' Hand Carved Horses. Built in the days when showmen called their carved horses 'hobbies' this hand-operated children's roundabout is thought to date from around 1840.

Mousehole Harbour and Quay. Two copies.

Date and location unknown. Inscription on the crane reads: SMITH'S STEAM CRANE WORKS RODLEY LEEDS

Harbour with Mousehole in the background, showing boats at low tide. (150 PZ)

Harbourside view of Polperro with boats and gulls in foreground, and cottages in background.

Wynns Transporter negotiating the Greenmarket, top of Market Jew street, Penzance.

Hawkes Farm on Alverton Road in Penzance prepared for thatching.

Awaiting delivery to Bugle

V POOR PHOTOCOPY

Headgear and buildings of unknown mine.

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…