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Men wearing best suits and hats one appears to have watch chain across his chest

Image shows men working at the base of the monolith during a concrete pour. Two men working on bare scaffolding above with no harnesses or safety equipment.
Annotated "Construction work on lemftbank 1-1-60"
Stamped on reverse "Richards Bros,…

View across the treatment works building site, 4 men working in shuttering pit. Date stamped.
Image is stamped on the reverse "Richards Brothers, Penzance"

Image looking down on men working on steel flooring
re-inforcement.
Stamped on reverse "Richards Brothers, Penzance"

Men & Women picking daffodils at The White House, Chywoone Hill, Newlyn

Pinned Photograph of a large group of people, some with greyhounds and some spectators

Photo of a photo (from an exhibition?)

Men with tractor, rescuing a lorry from a field & two dogs

In memory of
Captain Henry Rotary, and the crew of the Liverpool ship Cyber wrecked at Porthloe Cove during the great storm of 15th March 1905. Of the 26 men all told 23 were lost some of whose remains were washed ashore and here interred. Mates WH…

The Bassett Memorial, built at the summit of Carn Brea Hill, between Camborne and Redruth, in memory of the Bassett families who owned and controlled vast mineral-recovery areas in Cornwall in the 19th century. From this vantage point, the remains of…