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General view of the dam across the fields. Building work nearing completion, just shuttering on central part. The image is annotated "View from bank looking upstream 4-1-61"
It is stamped on the reverse "Richards Bros, Penzance"

General view across the valley of Drift Dam nearing completion. Although this is annotated "Upstream view from left bank 1-12-60" it is from the same direction as DD.103, which is described as being downstream. The ground is dry below the dam.
It is…

Close-up view of centre area of dam featuring shuttering at top. It is annotated "View of footbridge shuttering from downstream of spillway 1-12-60"
It is stamped on the reverse "Richards Bros, Penzance"

He is wearing the Penwith District Council Chairman's chain of office,

Alan Harvey was a member of Penwith District Council from 1974, and Mayor of St Ives in 1977.

View of the dam nearing completion, shuttering to the top and around tower, water at base to the right. The image is annotated "View of upstream side of overflow section 1-12-60"
It is stamped on the reverse "Richards Bros, Penzance"

View of the dam nearing completion. Two men in the middle foreground working on some shuttering. The image is annotated "View of dam from tailbay 1-12-60"
It is stamped on the reverse "Richards Bros, Penzance"

A gathering outside the Seaman's Mission Newlyn listening to a speech.

Crowd includes children and adults with the flags of Saint Piran and the Union Jack on the wall of the RNMDS, Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.

Man with pipe and stick and man with fishing nets, Newlyn.

Fisherman mending nets, surrounded by household objects including; buckets, jugs, flagons, scales and a bottle.

Cornwall Schoolboys Cricket Team v Devon 1956
Tommy Matthews, 4th left back row; Keith Holman, 6th left back row; Kenny Hosking, 1st left front row and D. Osborne, 2nd left front row were Penzance County Grammar School boys.

Packing fish into baskets, Newlyn.

Fish preparation with seagulls on Newlyn harbour wall.

The photograph is annotated Penzance 1952

View down the street full of people, and set with tables of food and flowers. The cake in the middle is iced with Long Live The Queen.

The men all have their instruments, and the photograph is annotated (BOYS).

A large group of men, formally dressed, with some women sitting at the front.

Large group of men and women all in uniforms of various sorts.

People in the front row have clipboards, and most of the audience are smiling at whatever performance is on stage.