Ralph Bird Collection (3 Items)

The Bird Collection brings together original photographs and film taken by Ralph and Marie Bird and collected material relating to Cornish Pilot Gigs.…

Cornish Pilot Gig Association (2642 Items)

The Cornish Pilot Gig Association Collection has been drawn together through the 'Pulling Together The Past' project.
This project was delivered…

Gibson Collection (2164 Items)

The Gibson Collection brings together images taken during the World Pilot Gig Championships held on the Isles of Scilly each May. The World Pilot Gig…

Helston County Secondary School (65 Items)

The Helston County Secondary School collection was created as part of the 'Green School Revisited' project. The collection includes photographs and…

Newquay Harbour Master Collection (46 Items)

This collection was digitised as part of the MemoryFish project.

King Harry Ferry Collection (82 Items)

In 1887, Colonel Arthur Tremayne of Carclew, gathered together some friends with the idea of forming a company to run a steam-driven ferry bridge…

Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (109 Items)

This collection from the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) contains memories of the market gardening industry of the Tamar Valley…

George Ellis Collection (1555 Items)

The George Ellis Collection is an outstanding record of community life in Cornwall during the second half of the twentieth century. George Ellis moved…

Wheal Martyn (1933 Items)

Wheal Martyn is Britain’s only china clay museum. It has a large and important collection of photographs and film documenting over 130 years of…

Clive Carter Collection (1888 Items)

The Carter Collection is arguably Cornwall’s pre-eminent photographic record of shipping and ship wrecks. Clive Carter was perhaps best known for his…

Disability Cornwall (15 Items)

Jonathan Barker Collection (850 Items)

Jonathan Blake Collection (951 Items)

John Bawden Collection (119 Items)

Helston Museum (1823 Items)

Established in 1949, Helston Museum'scollections reflect both the social and industrial history of The Lizard Peninsula, from mining, fishing and…

Bude Heritage Centre (2125 Items)

Photographs of Bude and surrounding area, includes historic shipwrecks on the North Cornish Coast. Visit the Bude Heritage Centre website.

Mac Waters Collection (5300 Items)

Mac Waters has amassed thousands of postcards and images, spanning over 150 years and covering the length and breadth of Cornwall.

Mac is a…

Paul Yockney Collection (7358 Items)

The Yockney Collection is a superb record of Cornish life in the 1980's as captured by press photographer Paul Yockney.

Paul began his…

Andrew Besley Collection (2847 Items)

The Besley Collection brings together images taken in Cornwall by professional photographer Andrew Besley.

Andrew built an international reputation…

Paddy Bradley Collection (2459 Items)

Paddy Bradley collated the definitive collection of historic images of the town of Redruth and surrounding areas. Amongst his archive are thousands…

David Trebilcock Collection (50 Items)

Listen to Ted Gundry have a chat with Phil Trebilcock, David's brother, about his life fishing out of Newquay. This collection was digitised as part…

National Maritime Museum Cornwall (122 Items)

The National Maritime Museum Cornwall, in Falmouth, welcomes over 120,000 visitors each year to see exhibitions of Cornwall's maritime history, the…

Ted Gundry Collection (348 Items)

The Gundry Collection is an extraordinary collection of over 500 Cornish voices.

During his radio career with the BBC, Ted set out to preserve the…

Morrab Library Fishing Collection (164 Items)

The Morrab Library is an independent library established in 1818, housed in a Victorian mansion in the beautiful Morrab Gardens in Penzance, Cornwall.…

Billy Stevenson Collection (775 Items)

Billy Stevenson has worked in the fishing industry his entire working life. His photographic collection is well-known in Newlyn. However, it is not…