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One of a series of photos showing the construction of a Cornish hedge and garden.

Part of a series of photos showing the building of a Cornish hedge and garden. This photo shows a woman walking along the side of a road.

A series of photos showing the building of a Cornish hedge and garden.

The Serica, a fine steel screw, schooner-rigged steamer of 1,736 tons register. Her last voyage began at Cardiff on November 16th 1893, when she sailed for Port Said with a crew of twenty-five and a cargo of coal.

Bad weather was encountered the…

A typed sheet of paper Lawrance Collingwood

Serena made many self-portraits, often to test film or equipment. This print has '1600 ASA shade in 4' (written in roman numerals). Notice on the wall is written 'god exists she is black'. This photograph is taken in Serena's studio address: Flat…

From the late 1960s onwards Serena Wadham became increasingly interested in feminism and women's issues, and the archive contains many pictures of political meetings and demonstrations, portraits of feminist personalities, and images of women at…

Photos of squats and occupations from late 1960s, including Guildford School of Art, University of London Union (Jan. 1969), Hornsey College (Jan. 1969); also rallies and demonstrations by the National Front, the Monday Club (May 1970), CND,…

North London architectural views and street scenes, mostly late 1970s-80s.

City of London, views and street scenes; the Barbican; some Islington scenes. Miscellaneous street scenes, café interiors &c, mostly Islington. 1970s-80s.

Victoria Station (1965); Hampstead Heath: Ladies' Pond (1974), views and tree studies (1976); campaign in support of Charlie Welsh and his animals at Corrall Rd, Islington (c. 1977).

Urban views, mainly in Islington and other parts of North London, many taken to test cameras or lenses.  Brown folder 4/1 of Islington views, with selection of local government publications, late 1970s. Also shots of St Paul's, railway installations…

Having originally trained as a professional musician, Serena Wadham retained a lifelong interest in music and undertook numerous related assignments, involving personalities such as Yehudi Menuhin, Elizabeth Lutyens, Gwyneth Jones, Richard Rodney…

One of Serena Wadham's earliest non-Cornish assignments was a study of Jewish education, for which she took numerous pictures, evidently in May-June 1965, at yeshivas in Gateshead and Sunderland, and at the Hasmonean Grammar School and other schools…

Loose b/w prints, some mounted, of farming scenes, standing stones, views &c in West Penwith.

Yellow folder 18/1 with scenes and views at and around Georgia, Nancledra.

Blue folder 17/1 containing photos and typed notes on the possible use of Reskajeage Quarry near St Ives for the storage of nuclear waste in 1987. Also cuttings and photographic prints, some in envelopes, some mounted, relating to SW's participation…

Brown cardboard envelope 16/1 marked 'St Ives/Women Artists' contains photographs and other material on Barbara Hepworth (1964) and Janet Leach (1984), and includes an ms. card from Hepworth and a draft article, and notes for it, on Leach corrected…

Brown folder 15/5 containing (mostly) coloured computer prints, loose or in plastic wallets, some dated; mid-1990s and 2000-1.  Plastic wallet 15/6 containing miscellaneous b/w prints of London scenes, SW's flat and a few nude studies; also test…

Brown folder 15/1 marked 'Prints of collages Ap. 78', containing various photo-collages done by SW, some mounted, and prints pertaining to them. Brown A4 paper bag 15/2 marked 'Calibration prints 1980': mainly London street scenes, with some…