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Battery rocks.

Toilets demolished turned into seating area

Works machinery and cars at turning triangle. Dam and tower can be seen in the background on right.
Stamped on the reverse "Richards Brothers, Penzance"

Workshop - Saws, Carpenters tools

Large wheel driving what looks like an early lathe for turning wood

Workshops\ Cottage James Tangye 1825 son founder Cornwall Wks Smethwick

View looking over sheds and pipework. A few men working centre right. Date stamped bottom left.

Dating from the mid 13th century this is the first (extant) map to incorporate the travel reports of Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta. It shows Asia up to India, marking places like the Delhi Sultanate and others with reasonable accuracy. The atlas also…

Worldwide map showing the distribution of customs and traditions.

Wreck S V Khyber built 1883 Memorial broad sheet O N 55.

Group of men on shore watching Spanish coaster, wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard.
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The Spanish ship ran aground on…

The City of Cardiff was on passage from Dartmouth to Barry Roads in ballast when it was forced shore in heavy weather on 21 March 1912. Despite laying anchors to prevent the ship being driven further in shore under the cliffs, the cables broke and…

Wreck of Nimrod

The Tripolitania was on passage from Genoa to Barry in ballast when it was hit by a gale and heavy weather, which drove it ashore onto the Loe Bar. The 27 crew and captain were rescued except for one who drowned. Despite attempts to refloat her by…

Fishing boat build 1913 owned by W Harvey registered n Lowestoft under LT706 wrecked near Penzance.
42 Gross Tonnage

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The steamer SOUTH AMERICA, bound from Hamburg to Cardiff, in ballast, went ashore in…