Images Dated 2016

The beach, Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Around 1920s

Four surfers with boards on the beach. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

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Cornish

Locomotive Smelter on the Redruth and Chacewater line, Cornwall. After 1854

Driver and fireman posing for the camera and a group of small children looking on from the vantage point of a high hedge in the background. Authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1824, the Redruth and Chacewater Railway opened on January 30th 1826, running from the Gwennap copper mines to the south coast port of Devoran, with a branch line to service the mines of Redruth. The 4ft gauge line carried minerals and goods only and generally worked profitably. It was worked by horses until 1854 when two tank locomotives, Miner and Smelter, were bought - the first steam locomotives in Cornwall. Eventually during the 1860s the two competing lines were joined to form a coast to coast railway line. The line closed in 1915. Photographer: Unknown

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Horse bus, Coinagehall Street, Helston. Cornwall. Around 1900

The Helston, Cury, Mullion horse bus, named "Fairy". Thomas John Pascoe is seated on the top far right, he was born at Trewennack on 19.8.1872 and died at Trewennack on 19.9 1943. The horse buses used to leave from the rear of the Angel Hotel, Coinagehall Street, Helston where, presumably, this photograph was taken. Part of the A.K. Hamilton Jenkin collection. Photographer: Unknown

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