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Two photographs of the Mount. The top one shows the location of the Battery on the Mount and the second shows the Chevy Chase Room in the Castle. The room is named after the plaster frieze showing the amount medieval hunting raids along the England…

Two photographs, the first of cliffs at Land's End.
The second photo is a view of St. Michael's Mount taken from the shore at Marion.

Two photographs of cliffs near Land's End

Cross Country Team 1950
Back row: -?-, -?-, -?-, -?-
Middle row: -?-, -?-, Alvin Williams, -?-, -?-, -?-, Beverley Batten, -?-, -?-.
Front row: Mr. Otto, -?-, Jimmy Glover, -?-, -?-, -?-, Mr. Jones
In front: -?-, (Reseigh)?

County School for Boys 1939 Panoramic School Photograph

Two photographs of Lamorna - the first looking east, with a good view of one of the houses at the cove and the second looking west, with a person sitting on a large rock in the foreground

The last large steamer wrecked at Cape Cornwall fell to the 4,538-ton Aida Lauro of Naples.

She had been launched in July 1923 by the Richardson Dock Company of Stockton as the Randor, for the Cardigan Shipping Company, and was a steel screw…

The last large steamer wrecked at Cape Cornwall fell to the 4,538-ton Aida Lauro of Naples.

She had been launched in July 1923 by the Richardson Dock Company of Stockton as the Randor, for the Cardigan Shipping Company, and was a steel screw…

Two photographs of rock formations at Land's End.
The top photograph is of the Enys Dodnan Arch (although the arch is not obvious in this photo), with the Armed Knight in the background.
The bottom photograph is titled Mean Perrow (possibly Maen?) …

Top photograph is titled Faces in cliff near Tol-pedn-penwith. Second photo shows cliffs near Land's End.

Photograph of rocky headland at Sennen. Cape Cornwall is visible very faintly in the top right-hand corner of the photograph

Brixham-registered vessel (BM328)

Two photographs of Porthgwarra, a small village 3 miles south-east of Land's End . The top one, titled Porthgwarrah Cove shows the tunnel towards the left hand side of the photo. Note also the large basket on the sand.
The second photo is a view…

Print of Schooner Garina built by Umpleby Kirk and Sons, Cowes Isle of Wight

The Maria Asumpta was launched at Badalona in 1858, and was involved in the textile trade between Argentina and Spain; later she was used to transport slaves and salt. In the 1930s an engine was installed, and she was renamed Pepita. With the…

Richard Chappell, local taxi owner, sitting in car at the bottom of Kings's Rd, Penzance

Portrait of Richard Chappell

Joseph and Edith Hichens, parents of Willie and Tom Hichens, and of daughter also called Edith, who married Richard James Chappell 1928. Clifton Villa at the bottom of Paul Hill, Newlyn.