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At the home of her grandparents Charles and Mary Dennis of The Bungalow,
Perran Crossroads.

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Photo taken same time as MG.310 and MG.309
Girls had bow and sits on plaid blanket outside

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Young Girl with bow and slide in hair.
Image taken outside in a countryside setting.
Possibly related to slightly younger girl in MG.310, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Subject has unknown insignia and initials RFC on left breast pocket on jacket. Possibly a football club?

Subject has two downward pointing chevrons, which may indicate rank of corporal or time served. Also at the number 24 on left sleeve

The trawler is aground at Bass Point, The Lizard.
The crew of 29 were saved but the ship's cat was marooned aboard for two days then saved by a local fishing boat.

The trawler is shown ashore, under Tregiffian Cliffs, near Lamorna
The boat had developed engine trouble in heavy seas. The Master and deckhand were saved by rocket apparatus (Breeches Buoy), but the other lives were lost.

The Dunboyne was a full-rigged ship built at Whitehaven and launched in March 1888. Now renamed the af Chapman she is still afloat, and is reputedly the World's third oldest surviving iron-built ship (the Euterpe, built in the Isle of Man, is one…

Royal Navy’s First Diesel Powered Sub Launched 105 Years Ago Today

On 16th May 1908 HMS D1, the first of the D Class Submarines of the Royal Navy was launched. The photo above, taken by Stephen Cribb, shows the D1 moored in Portsmouth harbour…

Lamorna Birch sitting in a small boat

Lamorna Birch on left with two men speaking to a lady.

Three men and a dog, the men are pushing their bicycles. Lamorna Birch on the left.

Lamorna Valley

Lamorna Birch at work

From a negative made of the album