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  • Tags: 1951-1970

swa.contact.0054.tif
Mine buildings & chimney, landscape, Georgia
Written on back of print: 54 or 33?

swa.contact.0034.tif
Landscape, Georgia with mine & figures

ORCH.SL.0348.tif
Wimpy Bar, Market Jew Street, Penzance also showing The Congregational Chapel, John Fry, Crown Wallpapers and Page, Keen and Page Jewellers and an Austin Mini, possible registration 706 SAF. Taken in 1959.

swa.contact.0004.tif
Eileen Hunt, Bar Ryan working with textiles for Crysede in Newlyn . Technical information re: photos

M.2997.tif
This is a photocopy of a proof photograph showing five women working in a sewing room, possibly making curtains.
See also m.2992 - 2996

MG.687.tif
The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

MG.678.tif
The Yewcroft was registered in Glasgow and went aground at Cudden Point on 8 July 1956. St Michael's Mount is in the background.

The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog…

M.2551.tif
The Juan Ferrer of Valencia was a handsome, well-equipped motor coaster of nearly 700 tons, thrashing her way up towards Land's end on her usual run from her home port of Liverpool.

Owned by Frederick Ferrer of Valencia, the Juan Ferrer was only…

M.2548.tif
Shortly before 5 am and on November 3rd 1962, the coastguard on watch at Cape Cornwall saw the navigation lights of the 250-ton Dieppe trawler, Jeanne Gougy, about two miles offshore.

She was steering southwards and he was expecting the lights to…

M.2547.tif
Crabber Pluie de Rose ( France) was wrecked at Trevedran Point, St Loy. The skipper swam ashore to raise the alarm at a farm. Two men were saved by breeches buoy and four men were picked up by the Penlee Lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat…

M.2546.tif
The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…

MG.219.tif
Woman posing wearing swimsuit, holding onto a metal ladder rung

MG.217.tif
Woman posing on stone steps, wearing very full dark skirt and high heeled shoes

WRECKS 32HG 051.tif
Group of men, including two policemen, watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The…

WRECKS 32HG 050.tif
Group of men, including two policemen, watching wreck of Spanish coaster wrecked at Black Head Rock later drifted to Lowland Point, near Coverack, The Lizard
According to Spanish newspaper report (6th November 1951 - Google translation) " The…

WRECKS 32HF 115b.tif
The 827-ton steam coaster, Yewcroft, bound from the Thames to Bristol with cement, wandered off course in dense fog and grounded near Cudden Point. A few hours later, as the tide ebbed from beneath her, she broke in half.

Description from Richard…
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