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Tredavoe - exercising horses from the local stable

Andrew Besley Collection

1980s

Pam Wells & 'Janus' the Irish Wolf Hound at the Outrigger Restaurant St. Ives

Andrew Besley Collection

St Ives

1980s

Polling station based in a local resident's house, Morvah

Andrew Besley Collection

Penzance

c1970s

Crowlas - local GP leaving Star Inn - the saloon bar was used as a waiting room, the public bar as a surgery

Andrew Besley Collection

Penzance

c1970s

Fishermen take their boats through to Portheras Cove - Pendeen

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Farmers son Terry Davey gets up out of the slurry shouting at the fishermen

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Farmers son Terry Davey arrives with another 800 gallons to pour over the fishermen. They grabbed him and pulled him out of the tractor cab and threw him into the slurry

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

PC Kenneth Wood listens as David Hill and Terry Davey argue over the disputed Right of Way. This was the first time in the three year dispute that "all parties" had met face to face: Davey having previously refused c1970s

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Fishermen demolish the new wall take their boats to the Cove. They had been hindered from working for 3 weeks because of the Daveys

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c22 May 1970

Farmer Davey on the left argues with a local fisherman re right of Way issue

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970

Pendeen fishermen push large granite boulder from gateway leading to Boat Cove and tip it over the cliff c1970s. Hughie Hill, far left

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Pendeen fishermen remove 10 tons of boulders from gateway leading to Boat Cove

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Boat Cove,Portheras, Pendeen. Note huts and slipway built by fishermen at cost of -8,000 over 16 years

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Victory for the fishermen as the gate is opened to Portheras Cove Pendeen. The boulders from wall in are in the foreground having been removed by Farmer Rex Davey after 6 months of "blockade."

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Fishermen land their catch at Portheras Cove

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Lighthouse keeper at Longships Lighthouse

Andrew Besley Collection

Isles of Scilly

c1970s

Ken Gilbert, Manager of Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen with a model of the adits and tunnels ofthe mine

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1970s

Peter Craze of St.Ives walks away from the shaft at Geevor Tin Mine at the end of the last shift.Having been forced out of fishing he became a miner at South Crofty and then at Geevor only to be made redundant on the closure of the mine

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

16/02/90

Father and son miners at tin seam in Geevor Mine

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1980s

Miners at South Crofty Mine

Andrew Besley Collection

Camborne

c1980s

Geevor Tin Miners at the top of mine shaft for last time as the last shift ends and signals the closure of the mine

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

16/02/90

Tuba player - Andy Blewer, Head Lighthouse Keeper Pendeen Lighthouse

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1980s

For Sale. A row of old miners cottages at Pendeen. Price -6,500

Andrew Besley Collection

St Just

c1990s

Major Bolitho, Trengwainton House

Andrew Besley Collection

Penzance

c1970s

Winter swimmers, Porthminster Beach, St Ives. Molly Parkin second left

Andrew Besley Collection

St Ives

c1970s

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