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'The Clefs' printed in the 1927 Programme Penzance Orchestral Soc.. 1907.. Purple Scrap Book

A 'Tintype' is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal (iron, tin was not actually used) coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. popular in the 1860's and 70's in…

A 'tintype' is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal (actually iron, not tin) coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Popular in the 1860's and 70's in America.…

A 'Tintype' is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal (Iron. Tin was not actually used) coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Popular in the 1860's and 70's in…

The Old Pier (Medieval) and a Mount's Bay lugger aground in the harbour foreground, with many more anchored off shore in Gwavas Lake. Fish being landed in small punts to the waiting 'Jousters' with their wicket baskets and donkey carts. This is the…

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham
'Vivian Young apprentice aircraft engineer'
Part of the documentation of the changing roles of women.

At Trevean, Cudden Point

Cornish Litany.
With a hand written message in pencil to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Kidbrooke, London

The vessel Busby, a screw steamer, wrecked on 24 June 1894 on Three Stone Oar (also known as The Wra). The vessel was on its maiden voyage, carrying coal from Newport to Civitavecchia, Rome.

She attempted the rescue Alba Panamanian steamer wrecked at St Ives . The Coxwain Mr Thomas and his son lost their lives

There was never an explanation for the circumstances but the ship was a total wreck

There was never an explanation for the circumstances but the ship was a total wreck

no one knows what happened.

she was thee largest oil tanker in the world at the time (12,350 tons) The crew were rescued by the Lizard lifeboat. She wqs later towed by two tugs to Falmouth harbour

"Distress" aground O N 74.

The Dunboyne was a full-rigged ship built at Whitehaven and launched in March 1888. Now renamed the af Chapman she is still afloat, and is reputedly the World's third oldest surviving iron-built ship (the Euterpe, built in the Isle of Man, is one…

Photograph of the vessel "Earl of Arran", beached on St. Martins, Isles of Scilly. The vessel was operated as a passenger vessel by the West Cornwall Steam Ship Company from 1871-1872 and was wrecked on Nornour on 16th July 1872. Nornour lies to…