1949

SW3822 : Porthcurno Bay, looking towards the Logan Rock, 1949

taken 75 years ago, near to St Levan, Cornwall, England

Porthcurno Bay, looking towards the Logan Rock, 1949
Porthcurno Bay, looking towards the Logan Rock, 1949
High tide, covering the glorious sands.
Photos by David Murray-Rust

My father David was an enthusiastic and competent amateur photographer and owned a prewar Leica camera. These photos were taken by him in the course of family holidays principally in Cornwall, Somerset and Pembrokeshire, in the 1940s and 1950s when I was a small boy.

My parents kept holiday diaries into which the prints were pasted, so it has been possible to locate and date images with reasonable accuracy. A large proportion of the pictures in the diaries are of family members and not suitable for Geograph, although people do appear in some of the pictures where the scenic value makes them worthwhile for the historical value.

The photos are scanned from small commercial prints (about 3 x 2 inches which was the normal size in those days) rather than from original negatives (long since jettisoned!). Even so, I have been surprised how much detail is captured by using a large dpi scan setting; they are still equivalent to a 10-12 megapixel digital image, although reduced size images have been submitted for this series.


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Geographical Context: Coastal Estuary, Marine Place: Porthcurno Beach other tags: Coastal Scenery Surf Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Looking [19] · Logan Rock [18] · Porthcurno Bay [5] · High Tide [2] ·
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Photographer
David M Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Contributed by
Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
30 August 1949   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 13 January, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 3894 2225 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:2.5798N 5:38.8557W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 3885 2225
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