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Stone viaduct with Brunel piers alongside.

A Padstow street scene of the Obby Oss dance with bands and the May Pole, in 1982.

Possibly captured U-Boats 1914-18 war

St Buryan Summer Steam and Agricultural Rally.

St Buryan Summer Steam and Agricultural Rally

St Buryan, one of Cornwall's tallest church towers, makes an impressive backdrop for the summer steam and agricultural rally.

Anderton & Rowland's Cyclone Twist at Summercourt Fair. (M. DeVey)

Foreground: Peper's swings.

Middleground: T Whiteleggs Easyrider, Tom Rowlands Dodgems.

Background (Left to Right): A James Big Wheel, D Rowlands Waltzers, J Rowlands Big Wheel & Waltzer.

Sunset over the Wheal Coates mine engine house.

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.

St Ives Consols showing children at work.

Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting,…

Drawn portrait with newspaper obituary. Born: Renfrew, Scotland, 9th January 1821, died: Lee, Kent, 20th March 1891.

A diesel engine at Swindon railway works. 1980.

Men looking at a crankshaft on a 1980 visit to Swindon Works.

Swindon rail works with a man and woman sitting in front of a steam engine.