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Swan and two cygnets by river or pond, image taken through trees.

Surname possibly spelled Paton

Pond with swan family with 3 cygnets, bullrushes to the fore and fields in background

The image says Brook Cottage underneath.

Interior image of a bird, possibly juvenile crow or other black bird.
Bird standing on a box, head is out of focus.

Interior shot of a black bird, possibly a young crow or chough.
Slightly out of focus

Greetings from the Garstin Family Xmas 1904

American Steamer, Crew of 33 and the ships cat all saved

Wreck of Tay Craig
Nine sailors were saved on a stormy day when a steamer floundered on rocks just off Penzance. It was exactly 87 years ago, in the early hours of the morning that the Taycraig, a Cornish owned but London registered steamer came a…

Harold Knight at work in his studio

Four fishermen who tragically lost their lives when their boat floundered onto rocks off Cornwall have been remembered by the descendants of those who tried to save them. Valentin-Henri Maertens, Alfonsus-Augustus Huisseune, Emilius-Julianus Dewaele…

'Afternoon Tea' Harold Knight

Lamorna Birch and Arthur Tanner at Swanpool.

The wreck of the SS Clan Malcolm off Lizard Point in Cornwall is of particular interest to me because my grandfather Captain Lawrance Wilfrid Gibbins went on board her when he was a junior officer with the Clan Line in the 1920s. Launched in November…

HS Tuke at work on his Steam Laundry

Lamorna Birch, Arthur Tanner and HS Tuke.

HS Tuke and Arthur Tanner

Le Vieux Tigre", which went on to Bass Point, The Lizard, in fog 27 March 1935

HMS Medea was an M15-class monitor, launched in 1915 as HMS M22. She was renamed HMS Medea in 1925 and was sold in 1938, wrecked after parting tow to the breaker's yard 23 or 28, January 1939.
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