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The Russian stemaer, Aksai, was lost around White Island on November 2nd 1875. She was on passage from Cardiff to Odessa with coal. Fog blurred the outline of the Scillies, with Captain Boltine taking her along the north side of St Martins, only to…

The Minnehaha of Liverpool wrecked at Peninnis Head, between the point and Pulpit Rock on January 18th 1874.

This was the wooden, 845-ton vessel, was carrying a cargo of guano. Master Jones had reached Falmouth on January 16th 1874 from Peru. It…

He joined the newspaper team about 1984. Died 11 Nov 2004.
Photo taken in the Union Hotel by Trevor Burston.
Further information can be found in Martin Val Bakers memoirs. A chapter about the Peninsular voice is held with Peters photo at the…

Thatched cottage with two residents in the rose garden

Distinctive thatched building. Copy of painting?

Replacing the the thatch

A thatched roof building situated on Alverton Road near the top of Alexander Road. Picture dates to c. 1900

Situated opposite the First and Last public house

Situated at the top of Market Jew Street. Opened on June 14th, 1838

The present appears to be a cow feeding from a bucket being held by farmhand

Mr and Mrs Ivy from Marazion

Staff and van outside the post office.

Looking down

The wooden viaduct was washed away fir the second time in 1868. Locomotive AMIAS No 3276 introduced in 1898.
Viaduct replaced by stone one in 1928 then an embankment in 1939

On left hand side of Causeway Head, No 31
Last day of trading July 1973

Taken around the time of the coronation of King Edward VII
Isaac and Arthur Fuzzey and John Fuzzey is also listed in Kelly's Directory. Also undertakers.

shows the entrance to the Fradgan. Building extreme right is the earlier Fisherman's Mission