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Four Firemen and Engine at former fire station
Four firemen and engine. The hand written index states that the fire station was in Clarence Street, Penzance. The logo on the engine, NFS, is the National Fire Service, created in 1941 during World War II by amalgamating the local authority fire…
Civil Defence Corp during exercise
Men and Women on an exercise Cornwall Division at control point
Penzance Home Guard at Chyandour Barracks
Front row, 5th from left, is 'Dike' Jones who post-war taught mathematics at the Boy's Grammar School until his retirement c. 1956.
Lifeboat being pulled through Hayle by Shire Horses. 1910
Note early cork lifejackets ,ladies with collection boxes
Members of armed forces with Edward Harvey, Mayor of Penzance
outside St John's Hall
Volunteers digging tank traps WWII at Eastern Green.
Note Signal Box on right of photo. Third from left Alex Beechman MP, Local National Liberal and Conservative