Images Dated 2020

Market Square, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall. Around 1910

An almost deserted view of Market Square (or Commercial Square) at St Just in Penwith. It shows J. Matthews shop, the King's Arms, the Wellington Hotel and St Just Church. Two girls are standing in front of the shop on the left hand side and there is a policeman standing with another man in the doorway of the Wellington Hotel. Alfred Oats was the innkeeper at The Kings Arms from 1906-1919 according to Kelly's Directory. Part of the A.K. Hamilton Jenkin collection. Photographer: Unknown

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The Riots Group Committee, Newquay, Cornwall. 1897

A photograph of the Riot Committee set up to object to the building of the Headland Hotel on the site known as Fistral Meadow, taken around the time of the riots on 31st August 1897. The proposed site of the hotel had previously been used as land on which farmers grazed livestock and local fishermen dried their nets. The proposals of architect, Silvanus Trevail, threatened to ruin their livelihoods. When building work commenced, outraged farmers and fishermen rushed to the site, where they tore down the wooden works office and valuable tools and planks of wood were hurled off the cliff onto the beach. Photographer: Unknown

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