D838 'Rapid ' arrives at Penzance with the 'Riviera' probably about 5pm.No date recorded but probably in the early 1960s.Used to wait for this train to arrive then get a bag of chips from Adelaide fish and chip shop and home for proper tea. Happy days.
Cornish Times and Telegraph March 27th 1935 Upper Part - My grandfather went to this Old Cornwall Society meeting and then cut out the write-up in the paper - loads of interesting info
Cornish Times and Telegraph March 27th 1935 Lower Part - My grandfather went to this Old Cornwall Society meeting and then cut out the write-up in the paper - loads of interesting info
How Very Cheap - Ludlow Ship Brokers transported miners to America and South America - Edmund James Ludlow (Teddy) who ran the other agency in Limerick even booked people onto the Titanic (I have documentary evidence) - as yet I've found no evidence of the shop in Penzance doing the same - but...
A Cornish Range; before the advent of the Aga or Rayburn. Cast Iron, with wonderful ornate gratings and brass fittings. The fire was on the left, with a projecting ash and cinder catch tray; the flue was taken around the oven. on the right. There were rings on the top that could be opened to get...