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IND 16OF 114.tif
Toilets demolished turned into seating area

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Mayor Dick Matthews & Wife inspecting printing machines at "The Cornishman"
Hartley Thomas (mentioned in hard copy entry) who was the son of Herbert Thomas, a past editor of "The Cornishman".
Also added is M.2966, a print copy of the same image

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Gear Mine on the slopes of Trink Hill
Giew Mine closed 1922 see Williamd G a history of Giew Mine, journalof Trevithick Society No.11 1984. Cornish Studies Library Redruth.

IND 16HF 027.tif
Central Rod of Man Engine broke with fatal results Monday October 201919. Newspaper Cutting

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Small Reservoir built 1757 supplied Penzance until 1851
Smithy and smelting works chimneys , Chyandour, Penzance.

This half plate glass negative is of two photographs pinned to a board, presumably to make copies.

IND 16HG 020.tif
See IND 16 HG 019, where the man welding was identified by his grandson as Harry Scrase 2021-04
Possibly Queen Street, Penzance

IND 16HG 019.tif
The identity of the man in the photo was confirmed by his grandson. 2021-04
See also IND 16HG 020

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Sewing room of Knitting Factory. There was a knitting factory at Orchard Place, The Fradgan which burnt down in 1956/57. First woman on left facing camera possibly Phylis Lodey, known as Nanette.
Newlyn Archive offers the following information…

IND 16WG 001.tif
Note Booking Office on right advertising Emigration to South Africa

IND 16OF 147.tif
Workmen printing silk with blocks, Cicely of Penzance wearing Silk Creation & Factory Sign

IND 16OF 125.tif
350 Ton Perforating Machine - possibly Holman's Dry Dock
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