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'Inkwell' crab pots being washed in the river Penberth Cove (slide) see ditto slide M 0577.

Group of scouts sitting outside enjoying a drink.

Mary Walls with baby. c.1865

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
"Furnished" accommodation in Notting Hill. 1968

'First and Last' Cycling Club seventeen young males on their first run. Taken on Penzance promenade, near Battery Rocks.

Nan Hodder and Diane Byron

The image shows a group of 10 workers standing outside the 'Driers' in the China clay producing area. Close by is a horse and 2 wheeled cart. In the middle ground can be seen part of a waterwheel.
Behind this scene can be seen the spoil heaps from…

Photographic postcard

The Sailing barge Baltic was bound for Newlyn from Medway with a cargo of cement for the harbour extension works. It wrecked on St. Clements Island on November 1st 1907.

The Baltic got off course after rounding the Lizard. The night was so dark…

'An Old Uninhabited House' etching by J F Vibert pub T Vigurs Penzance 1823. Illustration from 'Cornish Pamphlets & Tracts' Morrab Library

'Afternoon Tea' Harold Knight

Showing the Old Pier in the background

Location near Boleigh Farm, St Buryan Parish. The image is of Piper 1, see map

' William Ashburner ' Schooner information on the history written inside the folder see also M 726

? Unknown couple

? "Doll" ? Sarah Ann Dennis nee Darby

? ? Melinda May, Florence Mary Turner