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Morrab Library Book Fare held at St Johns Hall

' William Ashburner ' Schooner information on the history written inside the folder see also M 726

Location near Boleigh Farm, St Buryan Parish. The image is of Piper 1, see map

Showing the Old Pier in the background

'Afternoon Tea' Harold Knight

'An Old Uninhabited House' etching by J F Vibert pub T Vigurs Penzance 1823. Illustration from 'Cornish Pamphlets & Tracts' Morrab Library

'Baltic' Shipwrecked Mousehole Island.

'Busby' Wrecked Gibson CP11.

Photographic postcard

'City of Paris' Ashore aground at Coverack

The image shows a group of 10 workers standing outside the 'Driers' in the China clay producing area. Close by is a horse and 2 wheeled cart. In the middle ground can be seen part of a waterwheel.
Behind this scene can be seen the spoil heaps from…

Nan Hodder and Diane Byron

'First and Last' Cycling Club seventeen young males on their first run. Taken on Penzance promenade, near Battery Rocks.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
"Furnished" accommodation in Notting Hill. 1968

Mary Walls with baby. c.1865

'Inkwell' crab pots being washed in the river Penberth Cove (slide) see ditto slide M 0577.

went aground August 14th 1913
All crew were saved by th Sennen Cove lifeboat but the ship was a total loss.