1950

SW3922 : View from Pednvounder headland, 1950

taken 74 years ago, near to St Levan, Cornwall, England

View from Pednvounder headland, 1950
View from Pednvounder headland, 1950
High tide, with a moderate sea running.
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: Pednvounder Beach other tags: Coastal Rocks Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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Photographer
David M Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Contributed by
Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
6 September 1950   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 17 January, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 3946 2220 [10m precision]
WGS84: 50:2.5665N 5:38.4188W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 3924 2236
View Direction
Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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