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 Bodmin, Fore Street 1906 (ref. 56279) | The county town of Bodmin has a distinguished history, with origins dating back to the time of the Normans. Town lads are lounging on the pavement near the Royal Hotel. The Bodmin postman pauses outside Tickell the tailor's for a chat and, in the foreground, two young sisters show off their new frocks. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Bodmin, Mount Folly Square 1906 (ref. 56278) | Delivery boys loiter outside Hawkes' tile-hung hardware shop. On the right is a smart brown stone and granite building, characteristic of the locality. Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall. This broad, pleasing square was later converted into a car park. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bodmin, Barracks 1906 (ref. 56287) | Bodmin is the home of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, which served with gallantry during the Great War. A sergeant major directs the parade. On the wall of the barracks in the background are two targets, presumably for rifle practice. Surely they are a little too close to the windows! | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bodmin, H.M. Prison 1894 (ref. 33558A) | This bleak mid-Victorian prison, at the northern edge of the town, was closed at the turn of the century, and quickly decayed into a chilling ruin. It is said that the townspeople relished public executions, crowding the slopes on the opposite side of the valley to watch and cheer. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boscastle, the Harbour and Profile Rock c1871 (ref. 5964) | Boscastle's rugged harbour is a romantic inlet, twisting and turning for half a mile between brooding cliffs of slate and shale. The sea churns constantly and the cove offers little protection for vessels berthing at the diminutive pier. Hawsers 'thick as a man's thigh' check the impetus of boats entering on the tide. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bossiney, the Village 1920 (ref. 69653) | This village, described in the 19th century as 'hamlet of beggarly cottages', was built around a castle. All that remains is an earth mound. In the late 1500s Bossiney was a rotten borough, returning Sir Francis Drake to Parliament as its member. The village carrier is out on his rounds. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bude, the Town 1929 (ref. 82884) | With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction. It was once a modest seaport for the Bude Canal but grew in size and importance after the railway arrived in the 1890s. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bude, Lock and Breakwater 1893 (ref. 31893) | Built in 1823 to accommodate five-ton tub boats, it featured hydraulic inclined planes instead of locks for negotiating changes in level. By the 1830s, 50,000 tons of sea sand were being transported along its 30-mile length for use as fertilizer on inland farms. The canal was closed, except for the Bude section, in 1891. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bude, Chapel Rock 1890 (ref. 23792) | Bude's bay is protected from the brunt of the heaviest Atlantic weather by a breakwater connecting Chapel Rock with the shoreline. There is a legend that there was once a hermitage on this rock. The flagstaff was installed to aid the piloting of vessels in and out of the harbour. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cadgwith, the Beach 1899 (ref. 44185) | Cadgwith is one of Cornwall's prettiest fishing villages, and huddles between steep cliffs a few miles north of the Lizard. The beach is a clutter of boats and fishing paraphernalia. On the right is the lifeboat house and in the centre a sizeable boat shed, the home of the 'Marianna'. Crabbing is a local industry. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cadgwith, the Village 1911 (ref. 63994) | A fish 'jouster' or seller loads his trap with baskets packed with the latest catch. He will tour the local villages, travelling perhaps as far as Helston with his wares. These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open sea. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Calstock, Station 1908 (ref. 59704) | A modest train of the old London & South Western puffs into Calstock station, having crossed the slender viaduct that bridges the glittering waters of the Tamar. The journey into Cornwall transported travellers into a land of unique beauty, remote brown stone hamlets and the poignant remains of deserted mines and engine houses. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Camborne, Market Place 1906 (ref. 56433) | Camborne grew rapidly from a modest village in the late 1700s into Cornwall's tin mining capital. Its plain buildings of dull brown stone reflect its workaday origins. Here in the Market Square Mr Thomas's considerable stock of hardware has spread out into the street. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Camborne, New Dolcoath Mine 1925 (ref. 78624) | Camborne's massive Dolcoath mine reached a depth of over 3000 feet. To work it economically many thousands of gallons of water had to be pumped out. This was made possible by Richard Trevithick, who invented the first high-pressure steam pumping engine. He was born close by at Pool. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Camborne, Church Street 1922 (ref. 73299) | The rather severe building on the right casts a deep shadow across this wide shopping street. On the left the display of hardware items has spilled out into the road. The street is a medley of old tile-hung buuildings and imposing Victorian architecture. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Camelford, Town Hall 1895 (ref. 36995) | This attractive town of grey slate houses sits at the edge of Bodmin Moor on the banks of the Camel. A camel weathercock wittily crowns the fine Town Hall, built in 1806. Camelford is an ancient borough, and somewhat sleepy and forgotten. Behind the houses are long narrow gardens, remnants of strip cultivation. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Carbis Bay, Donkey Cart 1928 (ref. 81191) | Just over a mile separates this popular sandy bay from St Ives. Above the coast path at Porthminster Point lived the 'Huer', whose job it was to watch for the arrival of the pilchard shoals. Here, a family has hired a donkey cart for a ride round the bay | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Carthew, Clay workings 1927 (ref. 79869) | Cornwall's china clay industry was established in the 1770s. Down the years, pyramids of waste have scarred the landscape above St Austell, creating an eerie, lunar atmosphere. The quarried kaolin is used in the bleaching of paper and calico, and in the manufacture of china and fine earthenware. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Cawsand, the Bay 1890 (ref. 22495) | From the village of Cawsand, at the entrance to Plymouth Sound, the seas stretch out to Penlee Point, where the famous hooter alerted fog-bound sailors to the perils of this treacherous coast. 'Cossand' mariners were infamous smugglers in the last century. The spacious bay is fringed with thick woodland. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Charlestown, the Harbour 1912 (ref. 64784) | A sleek sailing vessel is berthed alongside the quay. Workmen are shovelling china clay down chutes into the hold. The port was invariably busy, also with cargoes of coal and the sweet-smelling barrel-staves which made the casks for transporting the finer qualities of china clay. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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