Pictures Dated 12th January 2019

Levant Mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. 11th (?) July, 1894

Group of 29 miners posed underground at the 278 fathom level. The majority of the miners are wearing felt hats, either with the brim intact or with the brim removed. while others have tallow candles affixed to their hats with lumps of clay. Six of the group are smoking pipes. One miner holds a large saw. The group shows a whole range of ages. The youngest members of the group seem to be at the front, particularly the very young looking boy standing with drills tied with rope and slung around his shoulders, standing in the second row second from the left. Note the condition of the young miners boots, third from the left front row sitting. Photographer: John Charles Burrow.

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Town Clock and Major Gill's car, Grampound, Cornwall. Around 1925

Glass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled 'Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots', given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925. He was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills and cine film to many groups including The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the London Cornish Society. The quarter plate slides which he took prolifically with his 'ordinary camera' are, in many cases, colour. These were painted by his own hand to great effect.

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Levant Mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Early 1900s

Group of fourteen mining men, including Major Dick White in a bowler hat, outside the Count House. Major Dick White is probably the man seated on the right and holding a walking cane. All of the group except one are wearing hats or caps and display fashionable men's clothing of the time. A man looks from the window on the right of the picture. Photographer: Unknown.

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