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Drying nets after 'barking' (soaking in preservative) Newlyn Harbour. The vessel in the distance is waiting to to come into the Harbour to load Penlee quarry stone at the South Pier.
One of Stevenson's 75' wooden trawlers can be seen on the…

Typed label attached to the back of the print:
BRITAIN'S BATTLE FOR THE BEACHES
Victims of the oil slicks. Three gannets, normally a dazzling white, that were rescued from the sea after the tanker Torrey Canyon, laden with 120,000 tons of crude…

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'In Islington'

Islington
During the time that Serena Wadham lived there, from the late 1960s to 1987, the borough became increasingly mixed, with a large white working-class population rubbing shoulders with incoming young professionals and increasing numbers of…

Wherrytown sea wall

Eastern end (Marine Parade)

Lariggan steps and river culvert.

Wherrytown seawall

Overview from opposite Queens Hotel area.

Title written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham in English, and in another hand the title written in French.

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…

Serena Wadham had been a musician, studying in Geneva and at the Royal College of Music before a motorbike accident forced her to abandon her intended career. When she embarked upon a career as a photojournalist she still obviously had a love for,…