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  • Tags: Working life

IND 16HG 023.tif
Small Reservoir built 1757 supplied Penzance until 1851
Smithy and smelting works chimneys , Chyandour, Penzance.

This half plate glass negative is of two photographs pinned to a board, presumably to make copies.

IND 16HG 020.tif
See IND 16 HG 019, where the man welding was identified by his grandson as Harry Scrase 2021-04
Possibly Queen Street, Penzance

IND 16HG 019.tif
The identity of the man in the photo was confirmed by his grandson. 2021-04
See also IND 16HG 020

IND 16HG 012.tif
Sewing room of Knitting Factory. There was a knitting factory at Orchard Place, The Fradgan which burnt down in 1956/57. First woman on left facing camera possibly Phylis Lodey, known as Nanette.
Newlyn Archive offers the following information…

IND 16WG 001.tif
Note Booking Office on right advertising Emigration to South Africa

IND 16OF 147.tif
Workmen printing silk with blocks, Cicely of Penzance wearing Silk Creation & Factory Sign

IND 16OF 125.tif
350 Ton Perforating Machine - possibly Holman's Dry Dock

TRANS 30OF 128B_edited-1.tif
Accident happened during rebuilding work after Ash Wednesday Storm 1962

TRANS 30OF 127A.tif
Accident happened during rebuilding work after Ash Wednesday Storm 1962

TRANS 30HF 083.tif
Small Oil Tank was transported by truck across the Causeway to St Michael`s Mount
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