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View of sky and sea, with light reflecting on water

Office excursion "Tea Group"

Office Ladies Egg and Spoon race

Note the St Aubyn Uniform

Large group of people, some wearing sashes and regalia, standing in the grounds of a large house

Detail of Map 81, sheet 45

Detail of Map 81, sheet 46

Typical donkey-hauled oil vender's cart. Oil was dispensed from 40 gallon drums. Note quart measure and funnel.

Typed label attached to the back of the print:
BRITAIN'S BATTLE FOR THE BEACHES
Victims of the oil slicks. Three gannets, normally a dazzling white, that were rescued from the sea after the tanker Torrey Canyon, laden with 120,000 tons of crude…

View of the Abbey Ruins, with a Cornish Palm tree in Flower

General view of an ancient Archway

Penzance Old Battery Square 'slums',now entirely demolished for the New Battery road and St. Anthonys Gardens. Gibson. Also a Letter from the Borough Surveyor to 'The Daily Sketch" and a cutting from 'The Cornish Evening Tidings.' referring to the…