Self portrait on a Newspaper
description: Written on the back by Serena Wadham "Tri X 1600 ASA"
creator: Serena Wadham
date: 1970-1980
format: Silver Bromide Print
type: Photograph

Self Portrait in Houndstooth Coat
creator: Serena Wadham
date: 1970-1980
format: Silver Bromide Print
type: Photograph

Self Portrait at Bakers Pit, Nancledra
creator: Serena Wadham
date: 1960-1965
format: Silver Bromide Print
type: Photograph
coverage: Bakers Pit, Nancledra, Penzance

Entrance toFalmouth
description: Tinted lantern slide
source: Gift from Brian Venn
publisher: Morrab Gardens
rights: Morrab Gardens
coverage: Falmouth

St Michaels Mount
description: Tinted lantern slide
source: Gift from Brian Venn
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1900-1920
rights: Morrab Library
coverage: Marazion

Morrab Gardens Morrab Road Entrance
subject: 4 Children by the gates
description: Tinted Lantern slide
source: Given by Brian Venn
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1900-1920
rights: Morrab Library
coverage: Penzance

Mr Coulson
creator: Bobert Preston
source: Photographic negative copy
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
coverage: Penzance

Stanley Turner and a woman, on a boat fishing.
description: Probably Mounts Bay
creator: Florence Turner
date: 1900-1910
rights: Morrrab Library
format: Print
coverage: Penzance

Mr Boase
description: D? Boase in smaller writing
creator: Robert Preston
source: Photographic negative copy
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
coverage: Penzance

John James
description: Page 34
creator: Robert Preston
source: From a photographic negative copy
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
coverage: Penzance

G B Millett
description: He is in what appears to be police uniform
creator: Robert Preston
source: From photographic negative copy
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
coverage: Penzance

Wreck of 'Golden Gift' LT 706
description: Fishing boat build 1913 owned by W Harvey registered n Lowestoft under LT706 wrecked near Penzance. 42 Gross Tonnage
source: Malcolm Waters
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1920-03-22
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print
type: Photograph
coverage: Penzance

Wreck of 'South America'
description: The South America was a steel screw steamer of 4,197 tons gross. She was owned by Nitrate Producers Company of London and had sailed from Hamburg bound for Cardiff in water ballast, under charter to the Hamburg Amerika Line. The weather was poor until March 12th 1912, when it cleared and Captain Bowling was able to morse 'All's well' to the signal station on the Lizard. But less than half an hour later the South America was steaming through thick banks of drizzle and frequent squalls of torrential rain and having to steer a zigzag course across Mount's Bay to avoid a Newlyn pilchard fleet, strung out haphazardly from Mousehole island to Runnelstone. At Midnight, Captain Bowling altered course northward to take the South America round Land's End. She ploughed on through the murk with the lookouts still keeping a wary eye open for the fishing boats and had just avoided a lugger lying at her nets when second officer Read saw the dark shape of land right ahead. The helm was swung hard over, but even as the steamer's 389 horse power engine was put violently into reverse there was a rumbling screech and she shuddered over the big round boulders of St. Loy Bay. By the time it rattled down on St. Loy bay, the steamer had been identified as the South America from London. A rocket line was fired over her, but as no one was left aboard to secure it. Captain Alfred Bowling and Chief officer Thom, and second officer Harold Read, a Penzance man, swam out, climbed up a rope over the ship's side and set up the lines to work the breeches-buoy. As dawn lightened the sky above Carn Boscawen, the ship's instruments and the crew's baggage were landed and the South America was seen to be lying broadside-on near Merton Point, at the western end of St. Loy. She looked intact, but when the tide ebbed her bottom plates were seen to be badly damaged. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles arrived, but even then it was obvious reflecting the stranded steamer would be a very difficult operation.…
source: Malcolm Waters
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1912-03-13
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print
type: Photograph
coverage: St Loy

Family Picnic Features Birch, Tuke, Tanner and Bell Leader.
description: Family Picnic Features Birch, Tuke, Tanner and Bell Leader.
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print

Birch, Tanner and Tuke
description: Birch, Tanner and Tuke
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print

Wreck of Tripolitania, wrecked at Loe Bar, December 18th 1912.
description: The 2,297-ton steamer Tripolitania of Genoa sailed from her home port on December 181th 1912, in water ballast for Barry Dcoks, under the command of Captain Elia Reppito, and when deep in the Bay of Biscay encountered the worst storm to sweep the Channel for fifty years. Gusting to over 100 mph, the WSW gale caught her high-riding hull as it would saild, and by 6 A.M on Boxing Day, when the Wolf Rock was sighted, she was in grave difficulities. She scraped past the Land's End Cliffs, and though water was pumped into her holds to force her deeper into the sea, she drove on. By noon the Tripolitania was inside the Lizard and, knowing she was doomed, Captain Reppito called the crew on to the bridge and told them that he was going to beach on Loe Bar. At full speed she surged up the coast, then the wheel was put hard rescue to arrive the Italians flung a roper over the bows and though the first man who slid down was swept away, twenty-seven others got safely ashore. During the next few ays the Tripolitania was driven farther up the bar sands, but she was little damaged and the work of refloating her began. Scores of labourers dug away the sand which continually built around her, coffer dams were erected and channels cut back to the sea. Months passed, and she still remained on the bar. In August 1913 hopes of salvage were still good, but on November 4th a south-west gale and high spring tide destroyed a year's work in a night. By dawn she had wallowed her way 300 yeards further inshore and settled down even deeper; Tripolitania was launched on the Mersey in 1905 as the Drumgarth, for John Heron & Co of Liverpool. She later became the Lord Cromer, and in December 1911 passed to Luigi Pillagura of Genoa. By a coincidence, her last captain before she was sold to the Italians was Captain J.J Beckerleg of Marazion, whose home was only half a dozen mile from Loe Bar. Description from Richard Larn and Clive Carter, Cornish Shipwrecks: The South Coast (Newton Abbot: David & Cha…
source: Malcolm Waters
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1912-12-26
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print
coverage: Loe Bar

Joan Houghton
description: Joan Houghton
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print

Lamorna and Jeffery
description: Lamorna and Jeffery
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print

Newspaper image of " SS Blue Jacket" off Longships Lighthouse
description: SS Blue Jacket ran around at longships. Following account taken from Penwith Local History GroupThe last cargo of the long passage – railway sleepers from Danzig – is safely landed at Plymouth. It should be an easy trip for the Blue Jacket, round Land’s End to South Wales. Three compasses and steam steering fitted, all recently examined and found to be in perfect order. Sea flat; stars out; lights all clearly visible. Two men on watch tonight, one steering and one lookout. Asleep below, another 21 men, some no doubt dreaming happily of the streets, chapels, public houses of Cardiff. The Captain’s a young man, and his wife’s on board, so he’s happy too. What could possibly go wrong? Yes, Captain Thomas knows that, in theory, there should be three on watch. But he’s let the first mate – William Rouffignac of Newlyn - have a good night’s sleep. (William is the brother of Ambrose Roffignac who was the subject on On This Day 24 August 1898) After all, there’s the empty hold to clean out tomorrow, and after that desertion at Algiers, and the bosun being discharged at Falmouth, the numbers are a bit light. Who can blame the captain for bending the rules? For cutting through a bit of red tape, a bit of bureaucratic nonsense? The ship passes the Lizard, making its way towards Land’s End. Captain Thomas decides to call it a night, goes below. The second mate, Mr Sinclair, is perfectly competent – he’s got his paperwork. But still, Land’s End is Land’s End. The captain comes back up when the lighthouses are in view, checks all is well, returns below. Mr Sinclair has been round Land’s End before; knows the ropes. He remembers quite clearly; pass to the inside of the Longships lighthouse. And his recollections of tonight will also be clear – that he went back to the captain, who was relaxing on a settee in his berth, and who told him: "All right, haul it right ahead… I will be up directly." But Captain Thomas will claim otherwise; claim that he was never even called. So it is, t…
source: Malcolm Waters
publisher: Morrab Library
date: 1898-11-09
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print
coverage: Longships

Lamorna with her father
description: Lamorna with her father
publisher: Morrab Library
rights: Morrab Library
format: Print