Images 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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Loading clay into a schooner at Fowey Harbour, Cornwall. Early 1900s

Great Western clay wagon at the end of the jetty, ready to unload. On the river in the background, the steamer SS Ardoyne of Aberdeen, built in 1912 at Sunderland. Picture taken after the 1912 clay miners strike. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan

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Boats, Cornish, Crane, Sailing, Steam

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

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