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Rock Mill with Treffry Viaduct/Aqueduct in the background, Luxulyan, Cornwall. 1909

The photograph is taken from above the Great Western Railway Par to Newquay branch line cutting, looking north. Rock Mill can be seen on the left of the photograph, with a telegraph pole and wires, running alongside the railway line that can be glimpsed at the bottom left. A lady with a child can just be discerned in the field on the lower right of the photograph. The Treffry viaduct/aqueduct can be seen further up the Luxulyan Valley. The viaduct was built between 1839 and 1842 by its owner Joseph Thomas Treffry. This viaduct, 90 feet high and 670 feet long, had the dual purpose of carrying both a tramway and a high level leat across the Luxulyan Valley. It was the first large civil engineering structure of its kind to be built in Cornwall, and it is now a Scheduled Monument. Photographer: Herbert Hughes

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Medieval Remains at Lower Greadow Farm, Luxulyan, Cornwall. 1972

Lower Greadow Farm, showing the remains of a medieval monastery building which belonged to Tywardreath Priory. The farm is in Luxulyan Parish and the parish boundary runs close to the eastern side of the farm. According to 1888 and 1908 Ordnance Survey maps it was known as Lower Gready. Two nearby farms to the east were known as Middle Gready and Higher Gready, both of these being east of the parish boundary in Lanlivery Parish. At some time since then the word Gready has been changed to Greadow. A granite stone outside Higher Greadow Farm still reads Higher Gready Farm. A young boy looks at the photographer from the doorway of the farmhouse. An aerial view from Google Maps (2019) suggests that some of the remains have since been removed. Photographer: Charles Woolf

© RIC, photographer Charles Woolf

Young Farmers Club, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. March 1991

The committee and members of Lostwithiel Young Farmers at the 54th annual dinner dance held at the Restormel Lodge Hotel. Seated from left to right: Steven Kendall, Guest Speaker; Kathy Brown, Club Leader; Mike Roberts, County Chair of YFC, Tim Bonney, Winner Best Boy Cup; Jane Osborne, Winner Best Girl Cup; Ian Higman, Winner of Achievement Cup; Jenny Kingdon, Assistant Secretary; John Northcott, Lostwithiel Club Chair. Photographer: Jonathan Barker

© RIC, photographer Jonathan Barker