Local historian, photograph collector and Voice reader Barrie Doney has no shortage of pictures and stories from Cornwall’s past, which he shares with Voice Newspaper readers every week.

This week’s photo comes from a bygone time in the railway era past, when the name of Beeching was approaching but yet, the railways were beginning to find that the post-World War II world was causing a lot of trouble for them.

Barrie takes us to the ‘clay country’ for this week’s photo to a time when Cornwall was in its pomp as the clay mining superpower.

Barrie says of this picture: “Here is the train arriving at Golant for the annual regatta in 1901. This was in the days when the line went from Lostwithiel to Fowey and on to St.Blazey.”