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Image believed to be of a leak in the Causewayhead reservoir , Penzance.

East Terrace Post Office . Pearce, Grocery & Provisions Decorated for Coronation Edward V11 ? O P 14.

S.S. "Lyonesse" , St Mary's ,Isles of Scilly loading Passengers and freight.
A print glued to a page from an Album

She attempted the rescue Alba Panamanian steamer wrecked at St Ives The Coxwain Mr Thomas and his son lost their lives

Post card Early Morrab Gardens with fences around the grass Bandstand Penzance. c 1900.

Market Jew Street Penzance. Ship & Castle

Post card Porthallow beach and village. c 1900..

Post card Porthleven Harbour and Look-out. 1907..

Receipt for Salary Bodmin & Wadebridge Rail Co

Fishermen in London to hand petition to Parliament over Corporation Condemnation of Fishermen's Cottages in Newlyn.
The 9 crew members from Newlyn Town were Cecil Richards, William Richards, Jimmy Matthews, John Henry Tonkin, William H Williams,…

German Ship carrying anthracite from cardiff to Ostend, ran ashore close to Gurnard's Head near Land's End, Cornwall.
Fortunately they were seen by HM Coastguard Station and all six crew and the Captain's dog were all safely rescued by breeches…

In 1939, the John and Sarah Eliza Stych lifeboat from St Ives (on loan from Padstow) launched with an 8-man crew, in a violent gale, to the aid of an unknown vessel (the SS Wilton). During the storm the lifeboat capsized and self-righted three times,…

Aerial St Ives and harbour just before 'Carter's Flats'were built between Mount Zion and the Fishermans Co-op Wharf Road.

People on an archaeological dig at Gurnards Head (as noted in handwritten file)