The police raid on the Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden in June 1968 was a key event that led to the closure of London's premier music venue (and successor of the earlier UFO Club), where the latest bands performed amid clouds of glory and other…
Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'at the Middle Earth, Covent garden (part of a photo story on a police raid.)'
The police raid on the Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden in June 1968 was a key event that led to the closure of…
A photograph taken at a police awards ceremony at the China Fleet Country Club in Saltash. On the right of the photo is Shaun Sawyer, who was Chief Constable of Devon & Cornwall Police from 2012-2022.
The Cypriot motor-vessel Poleire of 2,300 tons, which struck the Little Kettle Rock, north-west of Tresco on 15 April 1970 in Dense Fog. It wrecked with a cargo of zinc ore, she was bound for Gdynia, Poland, from Ireland when she went ashore less…
General view of Poldhu Wireless Station. These 300-foot timber masts dominated the Lizard Peninsula for half a century and could be seen from Land's End to the Camborne-Redruth area. They were dismantled in the late 1930s…
The Plymouth Steam Trawler went ashore went ashore on Porth Hellick, St. Marys in 1902. The image shows how the crew were waiting for the eventual high tide to eventually re-float the vessel.