Images Dated 12th January 2019

Harmony Cottage, Blowing House, Trevellas, near St Agnes, Cornwall. 1920s

Sometimes referred to as Harmony Cot, this house was the birth place of the painter John Opie, in 1761. 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

© From the collection of the RIC

Levant Mine, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Around 1920

View looking up the cliff at the retaining wall in front of the pumping engine house (left) and the winding engine house (right). Stack cut down implies probably around 1920. Photographer: Unknown

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Cornish, Mining, Surface

Tresillian Bridge, Tresillian, Cornwall. Around 1925

Tresillian Bridge from the east River Fal bank on the Tregothnan estate at high tide. Tresillian Bridge was the site of the surrender of the defeated Hopton forces (Royalist troops of King Charles) to Parliamentarians on March 10th, 1646. 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

© From the collection of the RIC