Old Penwith
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Competition photographs
The Cornwall Federation of Women's Institutes used to produce a postcard calendar each year. Members would compete to get pictures of that year's theme included. My mother entered from mid 1970s to mid 1980s IIRC and had a picture included most y
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Old Penzance Scenes
These are scans of old prints found in my father's archives. I know nothing of the provenance. They are not printed on the sort of paper my father would have used had he re-printed these from old negatives. I believe them to be old prints. The produ
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A walk around Sennen Cove 1983
Rescued some old transparencies because these slides interested me. I hope they are of interest to some others here besides. Most of these were mouldy so I was obliged to clean on the emulsion side; I think the results are not bad considering. Please excu
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Sennen Snap-Shots
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Post Cards
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Lafrowda 2009
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Knacked Shops of Heamoor
My parents moved to Heamoor in about 1988 and spent the last few years of their life there. Recently, whilst staying in my cousin's house near their old home, I was struck by the number of shops that had closed. Although the title refers to shops the
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Christmas 2009
Penwith 19th-27th December 2009 as seen by chill
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Docking Pauline-S of Georgetown - 1985
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Milk Stands
Milk Stands I have met on my wanderings around Penwith
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Penwith at war
These four photographs I found as tiny prints in my parents photograph collection. Each had "Oct 42" written on the back. They were in an envelope marked "photographs of Tred October 1942". I searched the BBC WW2 People's war p
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Beach Art
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St Just and Pendeen
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Lifeboats
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Miscellanea
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End to Enders
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St Buryan Rally
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Trengwainton
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Any ideas?
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School photos
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Ross Bridge re-build 1980-81
My late father took a series of photographs over the months recording progress of the re-building of the Ross Bridge. I have presented them here in the sequence in which he had them filed and shown dates where they were recorded. i think they are, more
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Plot recycling
In the mid 1970s my father both moved into PZ and took early retirement due to ill health. He was a keen photographer and for the next several years, as long as he was able, he took it upon himself to record changes to the street scene in PZ. He took man
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Drift Dam
Cuttings from The Cornishman about the time of completion and commissioning of Drift Dam
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.JPG "The Courtyard Behind the Abbey")
