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Wrecked After Fastnet Race

The image shows many skulls. One of three photos shown in ARMS LA 1 007.
St Leonard’s Church has the largest and best-preserved collection of ancient human skulls and bones in Britain. The collection consists of shelves in four arched bays that…

Drawing of completed dam at Drift, entitled "Penzance Corporation Lower Drift Dam"
Annotated on left bottom "Herbert Lapworth Partners Engineers", and on right "John A Stubbe FRIBA Architect"

Mr Quilter was the manager of the Ritz Cinema, Penzance for over 25 years. This image would be towards the end of his career in the early 1960s.
See also M.3104 for additional information.

Archibald Durrant Quilter (1899 - 1986) was the manager of the Ritz for over 25 years during the heyday of the cinema. Throughout that time the cinema changed from a successful and bustling venue, before being taken over by Mecca Ltd. After Mr…

Archibald Durrant Quilter (1899-1986) was the manager of the Ritz Cinema, Queen Street, Penzance for over 25 years. He retired in 1964.

Negative and damaged print

Antibes by unknown artist

Steam ploughing by brothers Robin & Charles Daniel. The plough is a 5 furrow antibalance plough built by Fowlers of Leeds in 1911. The plough was pulled by 2 Steam Traction Engines positioned at oppositeends of the field.

Anti-apartheid demonstration

Close up of banners and activists.

The plough pulled by two steam traction engines positioned at opposite ends of the field. Four men pictured.

Captain Anderson, Valentine Coryn, Margarita Anderson,

One of the largest ships to wreck on the Cornish Coast, the Ansgir, was one of many vessels of the German Merchant Marine.

Completed a dew weeks after the Armistice of 1918, she was created by A K Ges Neptune of Rostock, on the Baltic. She was a…