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For #photofriday, here's a picture of the Morrab Gardens greenhouse and staff in the 1920's. The gardeners have obviously always been a dapper bunch of chaps! gardens #penzance

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And don't forget, you can view all of the images you've seen this week, and thousands more, on our website: https://morrablibrary.org.uk/photo-archive/ Or drop in on a Thursday morning and meet the team! #exploreyourarchive

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It's the last day of Explore Your Archives week.We hope you've enjoyed discovering some of our incredible collections. Today's theme is Wild Archives. Here's a dramatic shot of Wolf Rock Lighthouse during a storm in 1974. #exploreyourarchive #wildarchives

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Today's theme of Explore Your Archives Week is Archive Voices. This is an image from the brilliant photojournalist Serena Wadham's collection, of the famous soprano Gwyneth Jones making up at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the 1960's. #exploreyourarchive #archivevoices

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Mysterious Archives - day 7 of Explore Your Archives Week! Here's a page from the mysterious diaries of one Caldwell Harpur (1866-1945), a local eccentric and writer. He invented his own language called Lenish and wrote thousands of pages of his diaries in this unique code. If anyone would like to take a few years deciphering his diaries for us, please get in touch! :-) #exploreyourarchive #mysteriousarchives

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Day 6 of Explore Your Archive Week - archives at sea. No shortage of images on that subject here! We love this dramatic shot from 17 May 1888 showing the 'Jeune Hortense' aground in Mounts Bay with St Michael's Mount in the background. #exploreyourarchive #archivesatsea

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Action! That's the theme of Day 5 of Explore Your Archives Week. Here's Gwynedd Haslock in action in Newquay back in 1971 - the essence of style! #exploreyourarchive #actionarchives

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Day 4 of Explore Your Archives is all about surprising archives. You may be surprised to know that in 1906, Mr Ellis of Camberwell St in PZ completed the construction of a ship, the 'True Love' in his garden, made from old floorboards. Her odd shaped stern was determined by the restraints of the small yard. She was launched but never sailed as she wasn't pronounced sea worthy. #exploreyourarchive #surprisingarchives

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Friends! That's the theme of Explore Your Archive week today. There's no doubt the people of west Cornwall value their friends, and we love to catch up on the local news.... #exploreyourarchive #friendlyarchives

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