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Stained Glass window of a church. Location unknown

Early Automobile with chauffeur and 4 passengers 3 with top hats. 2 onlookers with one 'Safety bicycle' without mud guards

Print number 25. Unknown artist

The back of the photo shows a well dressed lady wearing a Bowler hat sitting on a horse holding a whip in her right hand.
In the foreground are 3 ladies wearing black full length dresses adorned with neck chains. The central figure is wearing a…

Three stone built houses

Group of men, including two policemen, watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The…

Two men and two women sitting on sloping grass in sunshine. Marjorie and Reggie on the right.

Black kitten playing on doorstep

Sitting on grass slope, unknown woman, Barbara holding daffodils and Marjorie. Same occasion as MG.162.

Group of men, including two policemen, watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The…

Young Barbara wearing shorts, metal bucket in the sand in the foreground.

Belgian trawler "Omer Denise" aground after hitting The Manacles near Coverack.
Number 0251 visible on side

Caption on image " Wreck of SS Ornais II ashore at Perran"

Very blurred image of Reggie and Marjorie

Barbara on left in flowery dress.
Her relationship with the others is unknown.

"Paris" Atlantic liner ashore at Coverack.
The passenger liner was wrecked on The Manacles, off Lowland Point, near Coverack, Cornwall, England. The Falmouth and Porthoustock lifeboats helped transfer her passengers to tugs.[185] She was eventually…

Marjorie, barefoot on a beach holding a large fish and rod

The passenger liner was wrecked on The Manacles, off Lowland Point, near Coverack, Cornwall, England. The Falmouth and Porthoustock lifeboats helped transfer her passengers to tugs.[185] She was eventually refloated on 11 July, repaired, and returned…

Marjorie, Barbara and another young woman sitting in front of a wind break by sand dunes