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The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

The largest and best-known sailing-ship wreck in Perran Bay was the French nitrate clipper Seine, an elegant three masted steel barque of 2,630 tons gross launched in 1889 by La Porte of Rouen for the celebrated fleet of A.D Bordes et Fils of…

Clay works, St Austell

Clay works, St Austell

Clay Works St Austell

Clay Works, St Austell

Overshot water wheel. clay works

Overshot water wheel, Clay works.

Mine workings

Mine workings, Kenidjack Valley

Mine workings, Kennidjack Valley.

Carnival Float

The Queen Mother shaking hands with an African man (in Penzance?).

Queen Mother visiting industrial site in Penzance(?)

The Queen Mother at the top of the steps of St John's Hall with the Mayor of Penzance, Ald. Alfred Beckerleg in May 1967.

Portrait photo.

Ten year old Joanna Eddy (later Mrs Carter) of St Earth presents the Queen Mother with a posy on her arrival at Western Growers. On the right is the Lord Lieutenant Sir John Carew Pole and on the left is the Western Growers chairman Mr Peter Mumford.…

With a helping hand from Lord Lieutenant Sir John Carew Pole, the Queen Mother steps from the launch to Penzance quayside.