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The coast at Heddon's Mouth

1939-1945

Specimen of Cornish Stone

A photograph of the filming of 'Yellow Sands'

11 April 1938

Daily Herald Photograph: Ploughing Championship

1949-11

Daily Herald Photograph: Home Farm at Stoke Climsland

1933-01-31

Daily Herald Contact Sheet: Horse ploughing

1949-11

Sign for James Lovelock's 'Exponential Dilution Chamber' for testing chemical detectors

circa 1980

Engraving, 'Windfarm', by Brian Hanscomb

1992

Saddle-quern, used for grinding corn

350 BCE-100 CE

Cornish Riviera

circa 1928

Sea shell used as floating wick lamp, Cornwall

Sea shell used as floating wick lamp - Cornwall

[Mining cost books, also containing personal letters and accounts]

circa 1765-1816

Engraving, 'Goonhilly-Cornwall', by Brian Hanscomb

1990

Great Western Railway holiday guide "Cornwall," 1936.

Cornwall

1936

Great Western Railway holiday guide "Cornwall", 1937. Cover art by G. Baker.

Cornwall

1937

British Rail timetable booklet "Rail & Road Services Devon & Cornwall", 6 May 1974 to 4 May 1975. Publication no. W1559/74. 108pp.

Rail & Road Services Devon & Cornwall

1974

British Rail leaflet "For the holidaymaker at St. Ives", giving details of nearby towns such as train times, early closing day, attractions etc., 1968.

For the holidaymaker at St. ives

1968

A colour photograph entitled "Tuckingmill, below South Crofty, Cornwall. Tin Mining", by Jem Southam. From 'The Red River'. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Working the Surface of the Earth', shown 23 July - 3 September 1988

Tuckingmill, Cornwall: Tin Mine

Laminated card with three black and white images taken by members of the Royal Naval Air Station, Culdrose, Cornwall; rescuing a survivor of the Fastnet Race, 1978; airlift from a submarine; a Greek ship aground. From the exhibition 'A Distant Prospect', at Impressions Gallery 8th April - 7th May 1983

Air Sea Rescue

1978

Cornish tin mines. [A scrapbook of 138 leaves of newspaper cuttings etc. relating chiefly to sales of machinery and equipment. 1846-1850. A few items fall outside the main theme and relate to mines outside Cornwall. One item dated 1795. One ms. item. Possibly compiled by Museum of Practical Geology?]

Scrapbook relating to Cornish tin mines

1846-1850

Oil painting, Untitled, of two carts in a barn, in original frame, by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, Cornwall, England, c. 1890

[Two carts in a barn]

circa 1890

British Rail type-written handbill "We're even giving tickets away, now" advertising free tickets between St. Erth and St. Ives, circa 1968.

We're even giving tickets away, now

circa 1968

Collection of ten specimens of radioactive minerals: Allanite from South Africa, Carnotite from USA, Davidite from Mozambique, Granite from Cornwall, Kolm from Sweden, Monazite sand from India, Pitchblende (with alteration products) from Portugal, Samarskite from Kenya, Uraninite from the Congo, Uraninite (with alteration products) from Tanzania.

Collection of ten specimens of radioactive minerals: Allanite from South Africa

Triple-frequency primary feed from Goonhilly earth station, 1963

Triple-frequency primary feed from Goonhilly earth station

1963

Colour print by Richard Dudley-Smith 'And Shall West Cornwall Die' undated

And Shall West Cornwall Die

One of 2 dark green linen hospital drapes used in operating theatres, by A. W. Bent, Bude, Cornwall, 1994. Attached to MDF wooden board by metal straps with stainless eyes, with 5 surgical instruments sewn to the drape as follows:- 1994-71 pt1 - Potts clamp; 1994-71 pt2 - Satinsky Anastomosis clamp; 1994-71 pt3 - Robert's artery forceps; 1994-71 pt4 - Lebsche Sternum shears; 1994-71 pt5 - De Bakey aortic aneurism clamp.

Operating Theatre Hospital Drape

1994

08/2001 / Tape 2 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / Including St Ives to St Erth, first Great Western HST, Penzance station, Virgin High Speed Train, St Michael's Mount / For Wish you were here exhibition, St Ives to St Erth views from train, 1st Great Western HST's at St Erth, Virgin High Speed Train arriving at Penzance, Unloading motorail at Penzance, views of St Michael's mount

Master MiniDV 'York to Penzance, Tape 2'

2001

Guidebook, Great Western Railway, "The Cornish Riviera", by S P B Mais, 1929, description of Cornwall with maps photos and sketches, 167 pages, soft cover.

GWR: The Cornish Riviera

1929

British Railways (Western Region) holiday guide "Cornwall," 1949. Cover art by Lander.

Cornwall

1949

British Rail timetable "This is your line - St. Erth St. Ives" giving train times between St. Ives, St. Erth and Penzance, 7 May 1973 to 5 May 1974.

This is your line - St. Erth St. Ives

1973

A colour photograph entitled 'Tuckingmill, Below South Crofty, Cornwall, Tin Mining' taken by Jem Southam. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Working the Surface of the Earth', 23rd July - 3rd September 1988.

Tuckingmill, Below South Crofty, Cornwall, Tin Mining

A colour photograph entitled 'Cook's Kitchen near South Crofty, Cornwall Tin Mining' taken by Jem Southam. From "The Red River". From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Working the Surface of the Earth', 23rd July - 3rd September 1988.

Cook's Kitchen near South Crofty, Cornwall Tin Mining

Salted paper negative attributed to Calvert Richard Jones. Image shows Jones' wife Anne, framed in a doorway at Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall.

Anne Jones, framed in a window

circa 1846

[Collection of papers on Cornish tin mining, ca.1932-1956, compiled by F.L. Caunter, sometime vice-chairman of the Cornish Tin Mining Advisory Committee. Comprising correspondence (c.400 letters) and press cuttings (c.150), plus 15 pamphlets, the correspondence is mainly concerned with the writing, publication and publicising of Caunter's book 'The future of metalliferous mining in Great Britain', covering the period 1955 Nov to 1956 Apr.]

Collection of papers on Cornish tin mining

1932-1956

Album of 'Photographs of steam engines in Cornwall taken by Capt. R.S. Alston (b.1875-d.1938) of Bristol between world wars I and II. The information [captions] has been provided by Mr. W. Kendall Andrew of St. Austell.' [292 b&w photos: internal and external views of mines and mine workings and machinery in addition to the engines. The album was 'compiled by Mr. Arthur Stowers, past president and member of council of the Newcomen Society']

Album of photographs of steam engines in Cornwall taken by Capt. R.S. Alston

1918-39

One salted paper negative and five corresponding prints

Anne Jones, framed in a window

circa 1846

British Rail type-written handbill "An Invitation to take an extra day's holiday" advertising motorail services from Penzance, circa 1968.

An Invitation to take an extra day's holiday

1963-1973

Triple-frequency primary feed from Goonhilly earth station, 1963

Triple-frequency primary feed from Goonhilly earth station

1963