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Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge
giving lecture about night photography to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth
Institution. He was Hon Sec in 1921.

Terraced houses at night.
Accompanying paperwork refers to Mr John J Beckerlegge
giving lecture to the Photographic Section of the Plymouth
Institution about night photography. He was Hon Sec in 1921.

Black bird on perch in field

Man in tweeds and woman wearing glasses.

Marjorie and Reggie on beach wearing bathing costumes.

Barbara in floral dress at beach, possibly Porthcurno.

HMS Diomedes anchored in Mounts Bay

Wreck off Gurnards Head

Sel Portrait. Henry S Tuke A. R. A.

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

HMS Warspite (03) was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913. She served in the First World War and in numerous operations in the Second World War, earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be…

Flamingo
Card from Tuke

Tuke returning from Work

steamer sail ship Aida Lauro ( Italy) on voyage from Liverpool to Hull went aground near Cape Cornwall in dense fog. All seventeen crew saved by the St Ives lifeboat

Lamorna Birch and HS Tuke at Boleigh

Lamorna Birch and Arthur Tanner at Swanpool.

Account taken from the RNLI Website RNLI.org
Thomas Cocking, Coxswain of the St Ives lifeboat hurries to the lifeboat station and fires two maroons to summon the rest of the crew. The lifeboat, Caroline Parsons, launches in record time and rounds St…

HMS Medea was an M15-class monitor, launched in 1915 as HMS M22. She was renamed HMS Medea in 1925 and was sold in 1938, wrecked after parting tow to the breaker's yard 23 or 28, January 1939.
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