The 1,580-ton full-rigger Avonmore of Bristol, Corfield master, two days out from Cardiff to Montevideo with coal, crippled by a NNW gale, anchored off the Higher Sharpnose at daw on September 14th 1869.
On reverse it says , 'Interior view of the excel and large cog wheel in the cog pit of a typical 19 century mill. Picture taken before restoration, this gear train has now been restored' - No info on where.
The Workhouse, officially known as the Penzance Union Workhouse, was designed by the prominent Victorian architectural partnership of George Gilbert Scott (later Sir George Gilbert Scott) and William Bonython Moffatt.
Artist, Alfred Wallis…