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Mr Donald Trewern, Chairman of Penwith District Council, the local authority responsible for the Penzance Area, cutting the first turf on the site of the new Diesel Maintenance Depot at Penzance. Looking on are Mr Arthur Eplett, British Rail's Area…

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This sunset photograph of the ruins of Wheal Coates was taken by Tony Giles, the well-known Cornish artist. The ruins are situated within a mile of Langley Cottage, St Agnes, where Giles lived with his schoolteacher wife Hilary.

The ruins of Wheal Coates mine above Chapel Porth on the north Cornish coast. A rare sunset shot taken in the 1970s by artist Tony Giles.

Long Rock (Penzance) railway sheds from the A30 trunk road (London to Land's End) which runs nearby. Photo by Trevor Tremethick, 9 September 1974.

Penzance sheds (Long Rock depot) from the A30 trunk road which runs nearby (London to Land's End). Photo by Trevor Tremethick.

Saleswoman selling Elizabeth Arden products to customer.

Iron Maiden, Kitchener Steam Traction Engine

1920's Fairground Caravan at a show.

A fairground organ manufactured by Gavioli et Cie, Paris.

Traction Engine being renovated & restored at Brian Sanders Yard near Penryn

Robin & Charles Daniel of Nanstallon near Bodmin - typical Cornish "Men of Steam"

PHOTO OF AN ENGRAVING DATED 1831
One of Cornwall's oldest, biggest and richest mines. Mineral recovery started on the site started in the C16 and continued until the 1920 earning many fortunes for its shareholders. Over £6 million of Copper & Tin…

Arsenic Chimney Cooling Pond Pendeen Lighthouse

Levant, hand drilling below the sea. Four men pictured with tools.

Belt-driven stone crusher with traction engine, with man working and small child in the foreground.