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Image of a man standing under a very large tree

Image of a man in a rural setting

Image of a Lady

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towards the Bell Tower from between St Marys Terrace and Queen Street showing backs of houses.

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Winifred Turner, Cousins, Stanley and May Turner

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Winifred Turner, ?, Florence Mary Turner, Melinda May Turner

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Stanley and Melinda may Turner. Winifred Turner

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Cousin, Melinda May Turner, Florence Mary Turner

Page fro The Cornish Giant book, with illustration of steam engine titled First road trial at Camborne

Hand drawn and illustrated map of Europe, North Africa and Asia. Seas are coloured in blue ink.
Slide is labelled "Brit Mus. Harley 7182 fol 59 Ptolemy coloured"

An illustrated religious map of the world showing Adam, Eve and the Serpent at the top, and the four winds.
The slide is labelled "British Museum 20.e.6 Turin Map by Ottino".

This map by Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The map is attributed to the Castilian navigator and…

Map from The Boke of Idrography byJean Rotz, also called Johne Rotz. He was a 16th-century French artist-cartographer, born to a Scottish father and a French mother.
The slide is labelled "British Museum Bibl. Reg. 20 E. IX John Rotz. Book of…

Map from 13th century reproduced across two pages of a book.

A circular, hand-drawn map in decorative style of Jerusalem and surrounding area. It has drawings of holy buildings and pilgrims. The map is from the Royal Library of Belgium, and dates from the mid 12th century.

Some identifiable places include Persia, Galilee, Rhodes and Cyprus. The map is oriented with east to the top.
Slide is labelled "British Museum ADD MS 10049 for 64 r JEROME"

Ancient hand-drawn map of Albi, from the middle of the eighth century. This map of the world is painted on a rather thick parchment, in goatskin or sheepskin. It represents the world in the form of a horseshoe centred around the Mediterranean, (the…

The world map of the atlas attached to Marino Sanudo's "Liber secretorum fidelium Crucis". He sent it to the Vatican in 1321 and it is still there as MS. Vat. Lat. 2972 at the Vatican Library. It was probably drawn by Pietro Vesconte in 1320.

Double page (pp 92 & 93) from "The Voyage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt."
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an…