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Specimen of Cornish Stone

Daily Herald Contact Sheet: Horse ploughing

1949-11

Sea shell used as floating wick lamp, Cornwall

Engraving, 'Goonhilly-Cornwall', by Brian Hanscomb

1990

Daily Herald Photograph: Ploughing Championship

1949-11

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

circa 1765-1816

A photograph of the filming of 'Yellow Sands'

11 April 1938

Cornish Riviera

circa 1928

Saddle-quern, used for grinding corn

350 BCE-100 CE

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

circa 1980

Triple-frequency Primary Feed from Goonhilly Earth Station

1963

Engraving, 'Windfarm', by Brian Hanscomb

1992

Daily Herald Photograph: Home Farm at Stoke Climsland

1933-01-31

The coast at Heddon's Mouth

1939-1945

Sea shell used as floating wick lamp - Cornwall

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

Triple-frequency primary feed from Goonhilly earth station, 1963

Triple-frequency primary feed from Goonhilly earth station

1963

Black and white photograph. Interior view of Budock Church, showing boxed pews and east end. Taken by John H. Pledge, Budock Cornwall, 1904.

Budock, Cornwall, interior looking east

1903

Black and white photograph. Interior view from west end showing benches and east end of Landewednack Church. Taken by John H. Pledge, Landewednack, Cornwall, 1903.

Landewednack, Cornwall. Int. looking east.

1903

Black and white photograph. Exterior view of south porch of Budock Church. Taken by John H. Pledge, Budock, Cornwall, 1904.

Budock, South porch

1903

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

Anne Jones, framed in a window

circa 1846

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

Anne Jones, framed in a window

circa 1846

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

Anne Jones, framed in a window

circa 1846

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 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

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

Photograph, entitled 'Cross in Phillack Churchyard'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Stone cross in a churchyard.

Cross in Phillack Churchyard

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Near The Lizard'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Sea and rocks.

Near The Lizard

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Phillack Towans. Blown Sand Abt. 50 Ft'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Rocky hillside partially covered with sand.

Phillack Towans. Blown Sand Abt. 50 Ft

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Cadgwith'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Housing and possibly a lake, river or harbour with hillside in the distance.

Cadgwith

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Cury Church, South Door'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Church doorway.

Cury Church, South Door

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'St. Michaels Mount'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. St Michaels Mount taken from across the sea.

St. Michaels Mount

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Mullion Cove'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Sea and a rocky cove.

Mullion Cove

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Signposts Ancient and Modern'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. A metal sign pot and a stone signpost.

Signposts Ancient and Modern

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Truro Cathedral St. Mary's Aisle'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Outdoor details of St Mary's Aisle at Truro Cathedral.

Truro Cathedral St. Mary's Aisle

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'A Cornish Finger-Post'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. A stone sign post carved "Maw- Nan - Helfor - 1828" in a column.

A Cornish Finger-Post

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Truro Cathedral from S.W.'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Buildings lining a wide road with Truro Cathedral in the distance.

Truro Cathedral from S.W.

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Budock Church. Interior Looking E.'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Church interior with boxed pews.

Budock Church. Interior Looking E.

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'The Marconi Station Poldhu for Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy''. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Four radio masts and a road leading to them.

The Marconi Station Poldhu for Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Uny Lelant Ch. Porch'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. A Church porch entrance. This page is used as a title page: Snowdon and Llanberis District above the photograph.

Uny Lelant Ch. Porch

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'The Lizard'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. The sea and rocks.

The Lizard

1903-08

Photograph, entitled 'Truro Cathedral South Entrance'. Taken by John H. Pledge, 1904, East Anglia. From a photographic album of Snowdon and Llanberis District. Architectural detail of Truro Cathedral's South entrance.

Truro Cathedral South Entrance

1903-08

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