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Photo of Harrison Studios advertisement on the back of a postcard from the 19th century. Early photographers advertised on the back of any postcards they produced for general sale. This is a typical layout of a card from a Cornish photographer, dated…

Shows that as late as 1939 the name of Bolitho was on Barclays Cheques

Inclusion of gold. Sovereigns were still in daily use

Lloyd's Bank and the Humphry Davy statue in Penzance, pictured during Christmas 1978.

The Greenmarket with Lloyd's Bank dominating the centre (December 1978).

40 Ton Granite Block transported from Penryn Quarry to Winchester for carving into Monolith for King Alfred Milenary

Shows powerful & dangerous undertow of sea on many Cornish beaches following winter storms.

Photo of painting of horse and cart collecting seaweed at Porthcurno

Brian Taylor with one of several vintage gramophones in his antique shop at Plymouth. Note the dog 'Nipper' trademark on the side of the base and box of needles on the turntable.

A young woman poses with a vintage portable gramophone and some Durium records, in Brian Taylor's antique shop in Plymouth.

A young enthusiast listens to a recording from an early cylinder record in Brian Taylor's Plymouth antique shop.

A young woman holding an old E Berliner's gramophone record - Angel Record Orchestra Trocadero Linares - in Brian Taylor's Plymouth antique shop.

Mr W Balkwell, a postman in Merton near Okehampton, standing in front of an ivy-covered stone doorway to the post office, about to start his rounds. He wears a satchel over his shoulder and is holding some post. The sign above the post office door…