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Wolf Rock Lighthouse with its helicopter platform.

Engineers from the firm of Messrs Blight & White of Plymouth constructing the new helicopter landing platform at Bishop Rock Lighthouse (on the Isles of Scilly) in July, 1976.

DUPLICATE OF BUILD 8.030

Wolf Rock Lighthouse, showing the effect of storm waves on the 100-foot tower.

UNCLEAR AS TO WHETHER THE FOLLOWING NOTES REFER TO THIS PHOTO OR NOT:
Soon after this photograph was taken, during the week ending 28 February 1974, six plates from…

Mounts Bay

Low tide

PRINTED POSTCARD
Some of the ships have been adapted for remote control & fitted withHelipads

DUPLICATE OF BUILD 6.009
A rare 1882 photo of the fog bell being hosted onto Douglas Tower. In the background is Smeaton's Tower, which was later dismantled and the top part re-erected on Plymouth Hoe.

Same group of people PEOP 6.001 and FARM 4.002

PLEASE NOTE: This is a copy of the older print SHIP 8.012

Homeward bound from Australia

Identified in SHIP 8.057 as the MOLTKE built at Bremen in 1870 and rebuilt in 1889
Left London for Australia and was wrecked off the Queensland coast in 1889.
Picture taken soon after installation of Ross Bridge

Weighbridge Office on the left

Ship awaiting repairs in Dry Dock