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"Fleets of Peace & War" in Mounts Bay

Royal Navy fleet in Mounts Bay
Richards Photograph HPF Ref 25/56

Possibly Gustav Hamel at Trengwainton

East Pool & Agar Ltd 70 fathom Level in the Copper Workings of the Mine. Photo by J C Burrow FRPS.

Bus registration T 1406. Early bus services met with many "teething troubles" on the hilly unmetalled roads of Cornwall at the turn of the century. All the neighbours turn out to watch the event. Picturepurchased over 40 years ago.

The West of England Steam Engine Societys 28th Annual Rally featuring a 1937 Ruston Hornsby Type HR 35 hp stationary engine owned by Michael Edwards of Pendeen, Cornwall.

Belt-driven stone crusher with traction engine, with man working and small child in the foreground.

Levant, hand drilling below the sea. Four men pictured with tools.

Arsenic Chimney Cooling Pond Pendeen Lighthouse

PHOTO OF AN ENGRAVING DATED 1831
One of Cornwall's oldest, biggest and richest mines. Mineral recovery started on the site started in the C16 and continued until the 1920 earning many fortunes for its shareholders. Over £6 million of Copper & Tin…

Robin & Charles Daniel of Nanstallon near Bodmin - typical Cornish "Men of Steam"

Traction Engine being renovated & restored at Brian Sanders Yard near Penryn

A fairground organ manufactured by Gavioli et Cie, Paris.

1920's Fairground Caravan at a show.