The image shows the main thoroughfare down to the harbour in Clovelly.The dark image shows a donkey in the foreground pulling articles in a side pannier. Further up a donkey awaits. This along with toboggans was how the houses and harbour were…
Coach trip to Gretna Green from Penzance, standing outside Old Blacksmith's Shop. On reverse handwritten note reads "Scotch Holiday with Lottie + Charly Richards, Jim + Gladys Rogers, Grandma + Grandpa" (Mary and Morley Richards) Printed by Ernest J…
In the 19th century, large quantities of arsenic were refined and exported to the Americas for use against the boll weevil which was then threatening to destroy American cotton crops. After heat treatment, the arsenic was ground in a mill similar…