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People walking on the ice, sledges, dogs, someone riding a bicycle

People skating, sledging - on right is Val Oates with dog Paddy, confirmed by girl with pigtails who is Denise Dawson

snow on ground

Three masted sailing ship buildings trees headland

Trelissick Bank Trees Houses River Fal

Cliffs rough seas

The Castleford was carrying 3000 tons of general cargo, including deal and wheat, as well as 460 head of cattle, 1 passenger and 18 cattle drovers. On Sunday 8 June 1887 the Castleford was underway in dense fog and at high water. Despite stopping to…

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

Salvaged at Newlyn after capsizing 3/4 mile off Mousehole in 120ft of water

Salvaged at Newlyn after capsizing 3/4 mile off Mousehole in 120ft of water

The Cardiff tramp, Bluejacket, struck the rocks sixty feet from the main door of the Longship Lighthouse on November 9th 1898. The wreck came at the end of a long tramping voyage which began on June 4th, under the command of Captain James Thomas,…

Rough seas rocky cove

Longships Lighthouse just visible in background in waves

Rough sea rocks. Print from damaged negative

Sea cliffs houses Arsenic Stack on Cape . Also print from damaged negative

Late medieval lantern cross ten and a half feet high on an octagonal shaft in the churchyard of St Ia's Church, St Ives.

Grid reference, SW 5182 4052

For further information see Historic Environment Record,…

The war memorial on Battery Rocks, Penzance

Bessie was on passage from Cardiff to Portland with a cargo of coal, when it became caught in a gale on the night of 18 November 1893.

Bessie hit the western side of the Hayle Estuary and fortunately floated off and was carried by the wind and…