Edwardian Gallery

The Bridge, Penryn, Cornwall. 1900s

A crowd of people on the Commercial Road junction with Quay Hill, Penryn, looking west. The bridge is behind the crowd. The harbour office building is on the left, sporting a number of notices. The notice to the left of the harbour office window behind the gas lamp reads 'Borough of Penryn. Penryn Harbour ordinances. 1900' The large advertising notice on the road side of the office reads 'UGLOW. PIANOS 2/- (Two shillings) and 1/- (One shilling) ORGANS. FALMOUTH & ST AUSTELL'. The diagonal wording across the middle reads 'WHY BE WITHOUT ONE'. There are fifty three people posing for the camera. The majority are men and boys but four girls have managed to join the crowd. A top sail schooner is alongside the Quay. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan.

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Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd. Around 1907

Studio portrait photograph of Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd as a young boy playing with building blocks on a chair. Born on 18th November 1904, Alan was the son of Alan Walter Lennox-Boyd and Florence Annie Begbie. Educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Christ Church, Oxford, he married Lady Patricia Florence Susan Guinness on 29th December 1938 and died on 8th March 1983. He held the office of Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Mid-Bedfordshire between 1931 and 1960, holding the positions of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in 1938, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1943, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs 1951-1952, Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, 1952-1954 and Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs, 1954-1959. He served as Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, was admitted to Inner Temple in 1941 and entitled to practise as a Barrister at Law. Appointed Privy Counsellor in 1951, he held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire between 1954 and 1960, was managing director of Arthur Guinness & Sons between 1959 and 1967 and appointed Companion of Honour in 1960. He was created 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton in September 1960 and that same year, his wife, Patricia, Viscountess Boyd, purchased Ince Castle in St Stephens by Saltash, Cornwall. In 1965, Viscount Boyd held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall. The Boyd family lived at Ince Castle until 2018. Photographer: Owen & Son, Boscombe.

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The Rectory, Rectory Road, St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. Early 1900s

The family of Canon H.H. Mills playing tennis at the rear of The Rectory on a summer's day. Three younger men and a young woman play while three older women and an older man in a chair watch. All the older women watching the game are holding Croquet Mallets. This is the same family group that are in TRURI: SEBgv.8 and TRURI: SEBgv.9. Canon Henry Holroyd Mills lived at The Rectory between 1906 and 1925. According to the 1911 Census, members of the family and servants were: Henry Holroyd Mills, Clergyman, 50 years; his wife, Edith Annie Mills, 47 years; a first cousin, Mary Virginie Mills, 46 years, single; a visiting nephew, Richard Frith Quinton, 22 years, single; a cook, Ada Jane Blewett, 22 years, single; a parlour maid, Lilian B. Yelland, 23 years, single; a housemaid, Gladys Marshall Reynolds, 17 years, single. Photographer: Canon Henry Holroyd Mills.

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