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foundations of Romanvilla

foundations of Roman villa

Close up of floor tesserae

The Liverpool barque, Maipu, was the largest sailing sailing shipped (being 594 tons gross) wrecked in Hell Bay. The Maipu was bound from Inquique, Chile, to Hamburg with a valuable cargo of saltpetre, she went ashore only a few hours prior to River…

Major-General L.B. Nicholls visiting Porthcurno to view the site of the proposed £42,000 training school at Porthcurno. Left to right: W.E. Cleaver (principal of L.T.S. (?) and future principal of Porthcurno School); Mrs Nicholls; Major-General…

Roman villa.

Major Marrack. 3 South Terrace ?

The Major Oak tree in Sherwood Forest (Nottinghamshire). Oak trees here are said to date from mediaeval times or even Norman times. This tree, hollow inside with room for a small group of people, is near the village of Edwinstowe. The church in the…

Making Hay

Postcard depicting a man with a pipe making lobster pots at Porthgwarra.

Pianist Norris Williams

Unknown choir in front of granite building with beautiful entrance stained glass in arch above door

On October 15th 1889, the miners of St Just awoke to find the Cunarder Malta on the rocks, half a mile east of Cape Cornwall, beneath the Wheal Castle Mine.

The 2,244-ton Malta had been launched in 1865 by G. & J. Thompson of Glasgow for the…