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Built to give children free rides around Rally Ground
Reg: 219 KUO

Portrait of Jack Worth, coxswain of Penlee Lifeboat.

Postcard depicting couple at a railway station looking at a sign advertising 'Cornish Riviera'. Text of poem 'Jan and Jane's Holiday' reads:

"The Carnish Riv-reera! Well, Jane!!
I wonder what that there do mane?
It do seem some queer;
Let's…

Jayne Thomas of Brixton samples some new flavours at the South Devon Catering Exhibition in early 1983.

Trips to Lands End for Tourists from GWR. PREVREF 1482 duplicate photo

Jimmy Trezise, Penzance, barber, with some of the steam engines he has painted over the years. PREVREF 1958 Exhibited at a Steam Nostalgia Show1870-1934.

John Passmore Edwards Free Library and Technical School, in Truro, with cyclist and sign for St Mary's Methodist Church.

Build 1894 as Inttitute then Parish Council followed as Village Hall

The John Passmore Edwards Library in Camborne, with a statue of Richard Trevithick, inventor of the steam locomotive, in front.

John Passmore Edwards Miners & Mechanics Institute, built 1893

Retired in 1961 after 49 years & 9 months

Captain John Willis pictured after he had recovered from the ordeal of the wreck of the Liverpool ship Khyber. The ship wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthloe Cove near Tol Pedn Coastguard station on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from…

The Juan Ferrer of Valencia was a handsome, well-equipped motor coaster of nearly 700 tons, thrashing her way up towards Land's end on her usual run from her home port of Liverpool.

Owned by Frederick Ferrer of Valencia, the Juan Ferrer was only…

1980 Jubilee Rally. A 'Just Married' couple posing. Richard & Son, Mabe.

Steam Engine Road Race Silverwell New Skinner Bottom up Mile Hill toPorthtowan then down Rosehill ascends coast road to St Agnes and returns to Silverwell Mrs Hicks 01872 864053