The historic Huer's Hut in Newquay, pictured in the 1930s with two women. This is one of the few well-preserved relics of the bygone age of seining. The hut was built on clifftop and used by fishermen to spot shoals of fish such as pilchards and…
HMS Gladiator, which was sold to a Dutch firm for £15,000 in May of 1909. She was wrecked at Yarmouth in April 1908 and raised and taken to Portsmouth in October of the same year. She is seen here in the care of three tugs, one on each side and one…
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…
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…