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Postcard depicting a man with a pipe making lobster pots at Porthgwarra.

Making Hay

The Major Oak tree in Sherwood Forest (Nottinghamshire). Oak trees here are said to date from mediaeval times or even Norman times. This tree, hollow inside with room for a small group of people, is near the village of Edwinstowe. The church in the…

Major Marrack. 3 South Terrace ?

Roman villa.

Major-General L.B. Nicholls visiting Porthcurno to view the site of the proposed £42,000 training school at Porthcurno. Left to right: W.E. Cleaver (principal of L.T.S. (?) and future principal of Porthcurno School); Mrs Nicholls; Major-General…

The Liverpool barque, Maipu, was the largest sailing sailing shipped (being 594 tons gross) wrecked in Hell Bay. The Maipu was bound from Inquique, Chile, to Hamburg with a valuable cargo of saltpetre, she went ashore only a few hours prior to River…

Close up of floor tesserae

foundations of Roman villa

foundations of Romanvilla

Floor of villa with tiles

men working on floor with tesserae

Floor tesserae at excavation of roman villa