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Note base of earlier tower
alongside

A rare 1882 photograph showing the present Douglas Tower having its fog bell hoisted in position while workmen complete the lantern-room above. Smeaton's Tower in background was later dismantled and the top half was re-erected on Plymouth Hoe where…

DUPLICATE OF BUILD 6.009
A rare 1882 photo of the fog bell being hosted onto Douglas Tower. In the background is Smeaton's Tower, which was later dismantled and the top part re-erected on Plymouth Hoe.

Smeatons Tower is now on Plymouth Hoe. Present Lighthouse was fourth to be build on the rock

Overview.
With a hand written message in pencil to the reverse of the postcard to a recipient in Helston

An old sepia print of the Eddystone Lighthouse , Plymouth
Mounted on a page from an old Album dated c 1900

Eddystone Lighthouse.

With other Morrab Library At Home photos from 1971 and 1973

Edible lichen in the desert - Lecanora esculenta

Plymouth

Similar to H.26

Carlene Harry's mother. Taken on Herne Bay Promenade.

Edward Lavin.

Man with torch is the father of the photographer

From a negative made of the album

Handwritten Hard Copy
"King Edward VII Royal Yacht acnhored in St Mary Sound, 1902"

140x88mm novelty postcard. 'Penzance is the "Plaice" for a holiday'. Pop up drawing of a plaice superimposed on a beach scene. On reverse general greetings from Mary to Maude Grey in Plymouth. Stamped 'Liable to Letter Rate 609'. Halfpenny post.…