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M.2128.tif
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JDCP 509.tif
Postcard. 149mm x 105mm. No stamp, postmark, address or message. Published by John Hinde UK Ltd, Redruth. Serial number 2DC 2599. Photograph by Phillip Fenton. Colour photograph of St Mary's Church and the harbour across the Coastguard Building and…

JDC 262.tif
Showing the Old Pier and Green Rocks. The construction work had just started on the South Pier (built 1885).
The chimney stack of the Tolvadden Copper mine can just be seen in the left of the picture.
Building just right is the early Ice…

JDC 176.tif
Driver, Mr Maddern. At the South Pier, transporting stone agregate from Penlee/Gwavas quarry

JDC 151.tif
View along the shore under the Mousehole Road, below the site of Penlee Quarry. Showing mine chimney stack of Tolvadden copper mine on far point, and Stones Cottage, far right.

ORCH.SL.0174.tif
Public meeting amphitheatre, situated near Redruth with associations to John Wesley. John Wesley preached there 18 times between 1762 and 1789, although Gwennap Pit is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) to the north west at the hamlet of Busveal near St. Day.…

BUILD.COR.012.tif
Situated near the village, John Wesley preached 18 times between 1762 and 1789, although Gwennap Pit is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) to the north west at the hamlet of Busveal near St. Day. The pit was caused by mining subsidence in the mid-18th century.…

M.1895.tif
Mine workings, Kenidjack Valley

M.1894.tif
Mine workings, Kenidjack Valley

M.1893.tif
Mine workings, Kennidjack Valley.

BUILD 8.070E.tif
St Agnes John Passmore Edwards Miners & Mechanics Institute (1893)

BUILD 8.070D.tif
St Agnes John Passmore Edwards Miners & Mechanics Institute

BUILD 8.070C.tif
The John Passmore Edwards Miners & Mechanics Institute in St Agnes. Built in 1895 (building has 1893 carved on it).
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