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     Thanks for the great photos everyone!

                                           Photo Links:

Beacon Photos          Camborne Photos     

    Treslothan Church Photos        The Treslothan Players Photos

    Troon Organisations Photos      Troon Photos 1890 - 1920 

    Troon Photos 1920 - 1950         Troon Photos 1950 - 1980

     Troon Primary School Photos     Mining Photos    

     Troon Photos - recent              The Berehaven copper mines, Co. Cork.

    Wheal Grenville                         Terry Knight's photos (1910 - 1960)

 List of photographs in above groups:                         

1.  The Treslothan Church Council   c 1955

2.  The Treslothan Church Choir c 1955                             

3.  The Treslothan Players c 1950         

4.  The Annual Passion Play c 1950

5.  Troon Reed and Brass Band  c 1890  

6.  Pendarves House

7.  Troon Bus c 1914

8.  St. John's Parish Church, Treslothan  c 1906 and June 2002

9.  Marshall's Pumping Engine House, Troon, late 1800's, and June 2002

10. Beacon Stack, Carn Camborne Mine c 1870

11. Camborne Royal Trophy Band 1913

12. Pendarves Street, Troon   c 1952 and June 2002

13.  Treslothan Road, Troon, Police House, c 1952 and June 2002

14. Teachers of Camborne Grammar School, c 1956

15.  Troon Primary School - summer of 1957

16.  Troon TOC H, c 1960

17.  The old TOC H Room, Troon 

18.  The founder members of the TOC H, c 1940

19.  Troon Womens Institute, c 1960

20.  Troon Boys School, 1936

21.   Troon School cricket team 1939

22.  Troon School, c 1915

23.  Troon Square, c 1907 and 2002 

24.  The Cromlech at Carwinnen

25.   Troon Bakery, 1920's and June 2002 (private house)

26.  Grenville United, Fortescue's Shaft. 2002

27.  Great Condurrow mine - Woolf's Shaft. Beacon. 2002

28.  Troon Boys' School, 1949

29.  Treslothan Players - Passion play c 1950

30.  Treslothan Church choir, c 1950

31.  Treslothan Church choir, 1950's

32.  Troon Square, 1907, about to leave for a Liberal Party outing.

33.  Labour Rooms, Fore Street, Troon, 1930's

34. Fred Berriman's Buses, Fore Street. c 1930

35. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne - the Great stull, 1893.

36. Troon Primary School concert 1983 and two Maypole photos 1981

37. Church Choir, c 1963/64

38. Sunday School play, 1954

39. Nativity Play, Troon school, 1979

40. Home Guard, Beacon, WW2

41. Football Team, Beacon (?), c 1940

42. Camborne Grammar School, Oct 1960

43. Beacon Primary School, 1953

44. Choir, Treslothan Church, 1960's

45. Troon/Treslothan Mothers' Union or WI, c 1915

46. Troon/ Treslothan Mothers' Union, c 1940

47. Troon Teatreat 1908. Newton Road.

48. Troon school  - Teatreat,  mid-summer's day, 1909, Newton Road

49. Troon Teatreat, New Road,  1910

50 Fore Street, Troon, c 1910

51. Fore Street, Troon, c 1920 (?)

52. Milk boy and donkey, c 1920

53. Cornish Range, Pendarves Street, c 1920

54. Front room, Pendarves street, c 1920

55. Troon Blacksmith's forge, 1924

56. The Coronation Programme for Troon, June 1st - 4th, 1953

57. Trebilcock's shop, New Road, c 1920

58. Well-known Troon cricketer Jack Trebilcock c 1953

59. Troon Infants School, 1935

60. Front cover, Balance Sheet, Grenville United Mine, 1914

61. Troon Rugby Team, 1926 - 1927

62. 290 fathom level, Gould's Shaft, Wheal Grenville, 1910

63. Panoramic view of the Troon engine houses

64. Photos of King Edward Mine and Mining Museum Open Day 2003

65. Passion Play, Church Hall, Troon, c 1950

66. Two maps of Troon from the Pendarves Estate sale catalogue, June 1930.

67. Troon Primary School, 1951 - 52

68. Troon Girls School, 1954-5

69. Troon Infants School, 1950

70. Troon Primary School, Coronation Week, 1953. Boys class

71. Back of above photo with names written by headmaster.

72. Invoice from 1913 (paid) to South Crofty Mine for taking injured man J.A. Bray home to Beacon

73. John Wesley's Tree, Knave Go Bye, Killivose, near Beacon. c 1900

74. Committee of the Troon 'Old Tyme Dance Club' - early 1950's

75. Passion Play in Church Hall, c 1948

76. Children in a school play in Troon Primary School, in yard, 1938

77. Recreation ground, Troon, c 1950, and Church Hall

78. St. John's Methodist Chapel interior c 1950's

79. Church of the Good Shepherd, Troon, c 1918 - 1920

80. Side view of Troon Church, c 1950

81. Chapel outing to beach, 1937

82. Ministers and others outside St. John's Methodist Chapel, 1950's

83. Pupils of Troon Girls' school, 1936

84. Troon Boys' Cricket Club, c 1945-46

85.  Adit in New Street, now flooded - February 2004

86. Very old photo (c 1896) of people at the well, Treslothan.

87. Three photos of Pendarves Mine (1968-1989)

88. Troon Primary School, 1903.

89. Troon WI at Buckfast  Abbey, c 1950

90. Troon Tea Treat, 1933

100. The signpost at Stennack, c 1950

101. Two photos taken underground at Pendarves Mine

102. Aerial photo of Troon, 1957 (Crown copyright)

103. Aerial photo of KEM, Condurrow and Newton Moor, 1957 (Crown copyright)

104. Several March 2004 photos of Troon, and the school.

105.  Three 'Old Boys' of Troon Primary School

106.  Treslothan Church c 1904 by Bennetts photographer, Camborne

107.   Three Grenville Bus Company  photos of Troon buses

108.  The bluebells in Treslothan woods. Spring 2004.

109.  View from Frue Vanner house looking towards King Edward Mine

110. 1893 postcard by JC Burrows of School of Mines students underground South Condurrow

111. Cassiterite sample from Marshall's shaft. Troon

112. Kernow Knitwear Factory, Fore Street, Troon, c 1950

113.  Two photos (September 1941) of the official opening of Troon swimming pool.

114. Troon Womens' Institute, late 1950s

115. Troon Toc H choir in Laity Road, 1954

116. Signatures of people in photo 115.

117. Troon Primary School (Boys) 1956

118. Troon Primary School (Girls & Boys) 1958

119. Grenville United mine, 1904.

120.  Boswin Mine, Aug 1903. (Nr. Porkellis) Rare! (No. 17 on Mining page)

121.  Troon Primary School (Boys),  c 1954

122. Beacon Tea Treat - the saffron buns are delivered. c 1940

123. Beacon Tea Treat, c 1940. Eating saffron buns!

124.  Primary school visit to Restormel Castle 1957 (two photos)

125. Pony and Trap going down hill from Troon to Beacon Square. c 1908

126. FIVE photos of the CompAir Holman Test Mine, Troon, 1993

127. SIXTEEN  photos of 'old' Troon provided by Terry Knight

128. Beacon Nativity play 1957

129.  Holman Bros' Cricket Team 1918

130. Camborne Cricket Club (Pre -War?)

131. Camborne Soccer team 1914

132. Camborne Grammar School 1914

133. Treslothan Well c 1900

134.  Troon Chapel Square Pageant, 1961

135.  Tea Treat, New Street, 1961

136.  Troon Boys School, 1954

137.   Troon infants School, 1949

138.  Cromlech at Carwynnen - postcard posted Troon 1905 . Postmark shown.

139. Wheal Grenville Old Stamps, c 1904

140.  Wheal Grenville New Stamps, c 1904

141. Beacon Cricket Club 1927. Junior League Trophy and Cooke Challenge Cup.

142. Beacon Wesleyan Sunday School. Probably taken during WW1.

143. SIX photos of Beacon School during 1920's  and 30's (actual dates unknown).

144. Newly restored Frue Vanner at King Edward Mine Museum.  The ONLY one in the world. 

145. Goold's engine house, 2008. 

 

  Troon Photos  

  Beacon Photos Old and New

A visit to the copper mines around Allihies, West Cork, Ireland - workplace of many Cornish miners.

   Article by Tony Brooks (with photos) about King Edward Mine and Museum, Troon

 

 

 

 

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