Images Dated 2016 April

Wheal Trannack Mine, Sithney, Cornwall. Around 1900

Stamps and waterwheel in the foreground and the viaduct for the Helston branch line in the background, with a steam train and carriages travelling across it. Photographer: Unknown

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Cornish, Mining

Fowey harbour, Cornwall. 1904

A view from Hall walk looking up river with the china clay docks and railway in the background. On the left middle of the picture Caffa Mill inlet and just visible on the right of the picture is Bodinnick. Moored in the foreground are two barquentines, the white hulled vessel is the Nordstjernan of Fiskebackskil, Sweden. Photographer: Herbert Hughes

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South African war memorial, Penlee Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall. Early 1900s

South African war memorial, 1899-1902, with a sculpture of a soldier with head bowed and holding a rifle. Inscription reads: This memorial was erected by the inhabitants of Penzance to the memory of the Penzance men who lost their lives during the South African War 1899-1902. Scottish Light Horse, Lieut. Joseph S. Dunn; Imperial Yeomanry, Q. M. Bergt. Cecil Simmons (63rd Co.), Trooper Jack Edwards (93rd co.), Trooper Geo. Paynter; R.A.M.C, Private R.J. Rogers; Kitchener's Fighting Scouts, Trooper Walter Ede; Imperial Light Horse, Trooper W. Lewis Champion; 2nd Devon, Corpl. M. McDonald. Photographer: Unknown

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