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Wellington Terrace Penzance
With love and best wishes May 1907

David M was trying to negotiate the River hayle - later refloated

Leal Souvenir from the Garstins 1908

Snow drifts and telegraph pole

Two black cats looking out of French window. One behind the other, almost looks like one cat with two heads.

Blurry image of a black bird flapping wings in snowy scene.

Two cats, one black, one tabby or ginger, focussing on something above them out of shot.

Evening scene in town, bus and shops

Two cats, out of focus, one ginger or tabby, the one behind black, sitting on wall with ivy in background.

Hillside view, river and village in background.
Same scene as MG.378.

Dog, maybe collie or spaniel, in a park.
Town houses in the background.

Detached stone double-fronted house in thick snow.
Image taken from front garden, shrubs, plants and birdbath in foreground.

At the Ferns.

Draper

Seated in his garden at The Ferns, Cedar Road, Sutton.

Lowestoft Drifter crew about to be rescued by Penlee lifeboat 1930

The French trawler Vert Prarial had left Brixam at 6pm on the 13th March 1956. Nothing more was heard from her, other than a weak distress signal prefixed by the call sign "Dieppe 1517". At 5.45 am on the 14th the Coastguard received a telephone call…

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…