Images Dated 2016 July

Back Quay and Lemon Quay, Truro, Cornwall. Probably early 1920s

A view from Lemon Bridge with the River Kenwyn at high tide. Truro school stands on the hill in the background. Sailing barges, one with wooden square engine housing towards the stern, are alongside both quays while another is moored mid stream. The boys in the foreground, on the steps, and the one walking along Back Quay on the left are wearing shorts. Signage for the premises of N. Gill & Son and John Julian can be seen. To the right, on the corner of Tabernacle Street, the sun is shining on a Pratt's motor spirit advertisement. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

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A Fair, Truro, Cornwall. About 1910

Crowds at a fair on The Green, Truro (now Truro bus station). 'Hancock's Living Pictures' stands in the middle of the picture and in the foreground is Keiling Grays stall selling Doncaster Butterscotch. To the right of the picture is the building of J. Edwards & Son, corn merchants. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

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Visicks Basset works, Devoran, Cornwall. About 1915

A group of women standing outdoors at a bench, cleaning off sand and scale from trench mortar bomb warheads at Visick's Basset works, a foundry, in Devoran, Cornwall. The spire of Devoran church can be seen in the distance on the right. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

© From the collection of the RIC

Cornish, Hats, Munitions, One, War, Water Wheel, World, Ww1