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Typed label attached to the back of the print:
BRITAIN'S BATTLE FOR THE BEACHES
Victims of the oil slicks. Three gannets, normally a dazzling white, that were rescued from the sea after the tanker Torrey Canyon, laden with 120,000 tons of crude…

Typical donkey-hauled oil vender's cart. Oil was dispensed from 40 gallon drums. Note quart measure and funnel.

Detail of Map 81, sheet 46

Detail of Map 81, sheet 45

Large group of people, some wearing sashes and regalia, standing in the grounds of a large house

Note the St Aubyn Uniform

Office Ladies Egg and Spoon race

Office excursion "Tea Group"

View of sky and sea, with light reflecting on water

The following information was kindly supplied by Peter Everest, Curator and Librarian of the Henry Mitchel Memorial Museum, Hayle, in October 2024.

" This is an Oddfellows meeting of the Riviera Lodge of Past Grand at Redruth. The Lodge still…

On March 4th 1932, the steamer Ocklinge was lost in the same place as the French Collier Gap, as there seemed no reason of weather or visibility for her to have got so far off course.

She had been towed into Falmouth early the same day by the…

On March 4th 1932, the steamer Ocklinge was lost in the same place as the French Collier Gap, as there seemed no reason of weather or visibility for her to have got so far off course.

She had been towed into Falmouth early the same day by the…

On March 4th 1932, the steamer Ocklinge was lost in the same place as the French Collier Gap, as there seemed no reason of weather or visibility for her to have got so far off course.

She had been towed into Falmouth early the same day by the…