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A woman and girl dodging incoming waves on a beach

Sold fish at the Market Place Penzance

Note crab pot beside Fisherman

On the extreme left is Jack Bennett, next to Mayor George Ford. On the extreme right is Cllr Jack Stephens.

French/Belgian fishermen in front of the Christmas tree at the Seamen's Mission, Newlyn

Friesian cows in front of hayrick or silage with tyres on top.

"With best wishes for a Merry Christmas to you. From Alice harvey, Sarah Harvey, Mary Lucillea. Mary Ellen three children"

"Two girls"

Two girls dressed as fairies from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They are identified as Jean Richards and Diana Uren(?) Between the World wars the Richards family, from Penzance, decamped to Hayle Towans for the summer holidays, along with many other…

Two girls in white dresses

Barbara and another girl playing 'hockey bully-off' with walking sticks on a sandy beach, with cliffs behind

Barbara and a friend on a sandy beach, playing at a hockey "bully off' with walking sticks

At Hill's Hotel at Lizard - now Top House Inn. The three vehicles are AF19, AF66 and AF84. AF was the registration for Cornwall.

Two rectangular holes filled with water from above. Brick pentagon-shaped hole at base. Date stamped at bottom.

A typical scene of china clay wagons, their contents being loaded onto trucks at the St Austell terminus of the Pentewan Railway for onward transmission to the port for shipment. The section of the railway track was lifted in 1916, but some remains…