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Child sitting in chair by window.

View of Rough Sea.

View of Sea - Rocky headland

Street View - two Women in dark dresses walking away from large house.

Delivery by Horse and cart. Two boys on Cart. Woman and children at side of cart. Possibly St Ives.

Man wearing a Bowler hat leading a Horse and Cart.

Four young men standing outside of a building.

Well dressed Woman in Black Dress talking to well dressed Man in Suit and Bowler hat

Well dressed Woman in Black Dress talking to well dressed Man in Suit and Bowler hat.

Single Funnel ship at anchor

Twi Funnel ship at anchor, small ship alongside

Twin Funnel Ship at anchor

Ship with Twin Funnels, smaller ship tied up alongside.

Single Funnel steam powered Naval Ship

View of unknown Warship and Sail Training ship in background.
Possibly Plymouth Sound Devonport Naval base

Wooden Wall Sail Training ship. View looks like Plymouth Sound with ship operating out of Devonport.
HMS Impregnable built in 1860 as a 110 gun 1sr rate ship. Renamed HMS Bulwark and then HMS Impregnable in 1886

This is a copy of a postcard, but a better picture and more information can be found under the Identifier M.1595.

Foreground right is the end of the Old Pier in Newlyn. View is across to the new harbour road built in 1908, joining two parts of the village which became known as 'Uplong and Downlong'. They have just started building up the new walls supporting…

Mounts Bay luggers aground in the Old Harbour. Many more at anchor in Gwavas Lake, in pre 1885 time, before the North and South Piers were built.
Registration numbers on vessels had the numbers listed first, followed by the PZ descriptor; this…

Fore Street is above left; the Harbour road is in the far right.
The vessel looks like as East Coast mackerel drifter but may be another commercial vessel converted, etc.
Has a port registry number of F5223 recorded at Faversham, which is a town 10…