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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Belt of Beaumaris, beached at Mother Ivey's Bay, Trevose Head, St Merryn, Cornwall. Probably 1906

The ketch Belt of Beaumaris beached at Mother Ivey's Bay. Leaving St Agnes carrying nitrocake, she hit the pier, started to take in water, was deliberately run ashore at Mother Ivey's Bay and wrecked here on 21st April 1906. It is thought that this photograph is probably of the wreck. Looking closely at the ship, it can be seen that the hatch covers have gone and there is no sign of the sails. This could point to the fact that, between the tides, she was able to be accessed to remove equipment etc. The Belt of Beaumaris (ON 939), 68 tons, was built in New Brunswick in 1847. Her master was Foulkes. Merope Rocks can be seen in the background. Photographer: Alexander Old.

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