Images Dated 2017 September

Lambessow, St Clement, Cornwall. Probably 1923

A group looking at remains of an old wall in a field at Lambessow. The photograph is thought to have been taken during a pilgrimage by members of Truro Old Cornwall Society in 1923. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

© From the collection of the RIC

Architecture, Cornish, Historians, History, House, Manor

MP visits Playgroup, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. February 1984

Robert Hicks, Member of Parliament for South East Cornwall, visits Lostwithiel Playgroup to see some of the children getting to grips with their first computer. One of the parents worked for a computer company and installed some equipment for the day. The Playgroup was held within Lostwithiel Community Centre. Photographer: Jonathan Barker

© RIC, photographer Jonathan Barker

A.L. Rowse in Lostwithiel, Cornwall. November 1985

Born at Tregonissey near St Austell, Alfred Leslie Rowse was well known as an expert on Elizabethan England and his poetry about Cornwall is highly regarded. He was also a Shakespearean scholar and biographer. Despite his parents being poor and semi-illiterate he won a place at St Austell Grammar School (Poltair School) and then a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. He is pictured with Gwen Powell-Jones, Lostwithiel Mayor, and Canon H Miles Brown, local historian. The group are holding some of the town's regalia. Photographer: Jonathan Barker

© RIC, photographer Jonathan Barker