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Bodmin, Station 1906 (ref. 56281) | Approaching from the town centre, we are in front of the terminus of the Great Western Railway branch from Bodmin Road Station, opened in 1887. There is a spacious yard in front where neither traffic nor passengers wait, for presumably the next train is not due for a while. |  Add your own Memory
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Bodmin, Fore Street 1890 (ref. 24482) | Lads of all ages pose in groups for the camera in this traffic-free scene, with the turret clock at the lower end of the street. Two ox heads above granite pillars on the left indicate the Market House entrance, erected in 1840 for meat, poultry and butter. Three advertisements proclaim Colmans products high on the shop building on the right. | Add your own Memory
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Bodmin, Fore Street 1901 (ref. 47769) | This photograph was taken at the top of this main thoroughfare where it levels out and widens into Bore Street. The large building on the right is for the assembly rooms of the Methodist church, the steps of which are just visible in the foreground. | Add your own Memory
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Bodmin, the Asylum 1901 (ref. 47775) | The County Lunatic Asylum was first built a little to the west of the town in 1820 to the design of the Plymouth architect John Foulstone. Later additions were made five times before the end of the century. Patients relax in the grounds under the shade of tall elm trees. | Add your own Memory
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Bodmin, Barracks 1906 (ref. 56286) | Disciplined soldiers stand to attention on the enclosed parade ground of the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry barracks, off the Lostwithiel Road. | Add your own Memory
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Bodmin, Dunmere Bridge and Mill 1906 (ref. 56290) | Here we see a quiet summer scene in the valley bottom, where the Wadebridge road crosses the River Camel at the foot of a long descent from Bodmin. The mill is just visible beyond the bridge on the left. The bridge, hardly visible, was rebuilt after being destroyed in a flood in 1847. | Add your own Memory
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Boscastle, the Harbour and Profile Rock c1871 (ref. 5964) | The picturesque harbour gives good shelter, once vessels have negotiated a difficult entrance between high cliffs. This early photograph gives evidence that Boscastle was indeed a trading port, with a small schooner and smacks lying aground at half-tide. The main imports of lime and coal declined after the railway came to Camelford in 1893. The Profile Rock on the headland was said to resemble Queen Victoria's head! | Add your own Memory
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Boscastle, the Village 1906 (ref. 56169) | While the harbour area is well known to tourists, the true village of Boscastle climbs a steep hill to the south, where it was by-passed in 1886. Children and their mothers pose while the men are out at work, fishing or farming. Slate slabs form bridges over the roadside gutters. | Add your own Memory
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Bude, 1906 (ref. 56076) | Taken just a few years after photograph No 45876, this view shows Granville Terrace (left) and the Strand curving away beside the Neet beyond. The missing stone arch of Nanny Moore's Bridge marks the site of a mill. | Add your own Memory
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Bude, the Strand 1900 (ref. 45876) | We are looking north-west from the end of the Strand towards the terraces of Summerleaze Crescent on the skyline. Granville Terrace is just to the right of the bridge across the River Neet. Note the delivery basket in the foreground. | Add your own Memory
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Bude, Canal from the bridge 1890 (ref. 23780) | The Bude Canal was opened in 1826 from this harbour basin, with a sea lock just visible in the distance. Shelly sea sand was carried inland for spreading on acid soils by tub boats: we can see one in the foreground. Two ketches lie alongside the quay of Hockin & Co, timber, slate, coal, salt, manure, grain and lime merchants. Note the timber on the quay and seasoning in the water. Between the ships is The Castle, built in 1850 for the inventor Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. The railway did not arrive until 1898. | Add your own Memory
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Cadgwith, Scavengers 1899 (ref. 44189) | Lobster or crab pots lie on the beach awaiting the next fishing trip, in a scene typical of many small fishing coves around the Cornish coast. Scavengers, the ever-present herring gulls, are perched on the rocks behind ready to grab any potential free meal. | Add your own Memory
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Callington, Kit Hill 1908 (ref. 59724) | The 85-ft ornamental chimney stack for Kit Hill United Mine was built in 1858 as a summit landmark to be seen from many miles. After closure in the 1860s, the tin mine was re-opened as Kithill Great Consols in 1881-85. The stack dwarfs a beam engine house to the right, while less substantial buildings are already ruinous. Today the stack stands alone. | Add your own Memory
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Callington, New Bridge 1904 (ref. 51822) | The Liskeard to Callington road crosses the River Lynher here on one of Cornwall's many historic bridges. First recorded in 1478, its granite arches were widened on the far, downstream, side in 1874. It is now busy with modern traffic, but this viewpoint emphasises the tranquil beauty of such crossing points. Note the garden plots on the hillside behind. | Add your own Memory
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Callington, Launceston Road 1908 (ref. 59726) | This is a picturesque view of the approach to the town along Launceston Road. The pony and trap has time to pose across the road without hindering other traffic. Note the gas street lamp, left foreground. | Add your own Memory
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Callington, Fore Street 1893 (ref. 32343) | Everyone is posing for the camera right through the town centre, and in the road too. Note the elderly bearded gentleman on the left, and the shopkeeper in his apron on the right. This is summer: awnings give shade to the shops on one side of the street, and one of the boys holds a cricket bat. | Add your own Memory
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Callington, Fore Street 1904 (ref. 51824) | Less than a decade after photograph No 32343, the focus of attention is the motor bus in the street. In contrast, note the girl and large-wheeled pram on the left. | Add your own Memory
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Callington, Station 1908 (ref. 59722) | The East Cornwall Mineral Railway, from Kelly Bray, near Callington, to Calstock Quay, opened in 1872, but in 1908 it was relaid to standard gauge and connected to Plymouth via the Calstock Viaduct. This picture was taken shortly after the opening on 2 March 1908; the locomotive could be the 'Lord St Levan'. This end of the line closed in 1966. | Add your own Memory
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Calstock, Viaduct 1908 (ref. 59702) | This new viaduct across the Tamar has just been opened, linking Plymouth to the district around Gunnislake and Callington. The construction workyard on the Devon bank has been cleared, but the wooden ketch 'Garlandstone' can be seen being built at James Goss's shipyard just behind the viaduct. The chimney of a fire brick works stands out in Calstock, and there is evidence of market gardening in the foreground. | Add your own Memory
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Camborne, Free Library 1902 (ref. 49116) | Built at a cost of £2,000 on the junction of Basset Street (left) with Trevenson Street, the Passmore Edwards Free Library was opened on 23 May 1895 and boasted 5,400 volumes. A statue of Richard Trevithick, the Cornish engineering genius, now stands outside the building. The benefactor John Passmore Edwards also financed the library at Liskeard, seen on page 55. | Add your own Memory
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