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Maxim Flying Machine
These were some of the largest machines ever seen in Britain up to that date. This example, pictured at Southport, was the largest permanent Fair Ride in Britain up to 1900. Holidaymakers rode in suspended car which swung out as the speed of the ride…
May Browne
Mary Louisa Browne was born in 1858 in Rangoon, Bengal, India to Horace Albert Browne and Louisa Fanny Algeo Moresby.
She married William Jordan Cummings in Rangoon in 1877. He was a Col. in the Royal Engineers and died in 1908.
They had one…
She married William Jordan Cummings in Rangoon in 1877. He was a Col. in the Royal Engineers and died in 1908.
They had one…
May Hornes, Penzance
A stall in Penzance selling May Hornes with a group of onlookers possibly family members.
May Queen and attendants on Podium
Crowning the May Queen at Paul. Queen - Valerie Stephens on her R. Gill Trahair. Vicar Rev Tyrrel.
May, Violet and Stanley Curnow at their wet fish shop in Causeway Head
On left hand side of Causeway Head, No 31
Last day of trading July 1973
Last day of trading July 1973
Maynard School Exeter
With C. Harry
Mayor & Mayoress of Penzance old Mill-stone
Mr & Mrs Alfred Beckerleg
Mayor and Mayoress with children and bandsmen
Possibly bandsmen of Territorial Army
Mayor and Mayoress with unknown guest
Formal portrait with the mayor and mayoress wearing chains of office. The location is an unknown interior. In the background is a copy of The Rain it Raineth Every Day, painting by Norman Garstin.
Mayor and Civil Defence Corps group
The group are standing outside St John's Hall. The vans are labelled Civil Defence Corps, Cornwall Division.
