Photos by David Murray-Rust :: Shared Description

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.
by Alan Murray-Rust
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SM7609 : Martin's Haven, 1954 by David M Murray-Rust
SW5129 : St Michael's Mount, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
SM8507 : Playing on the beach at Triple Stone, Sandy Haven, 1953 by David M Murray-Rust
SM8507 : Mun Sands with surf, Sandy Haven, 1953 by David M Murray-Rust
SW3835 : Portheras Cove, 1950 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0837 : Combe Cross Cottage, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
SW3922 : View from Percella Point, 1950 by David M Murray-Rust
SW3922 : Pednvounder Cove, 1950 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0440 : Cleeve Abbey, 1950 – 4 by David M Murray-Rust
SN1347 : Pantirion, near St Dogmaels, 1953 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0936 : Above Wood Farm, Stogumber, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0937 : Lane by the stream, Stogumber, 1950 by David M Murray-Rust
SM7607 : View towards Gateholm, 1953 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0937 : View from Combe Cross Lane, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0343 : Blue Anchor beach, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
NU2519 : Craster Harbour, 1964 – 2 by David M Murray-Rust
SM8607 : Sandy Haven, 1952 – 2 by David M Murray-Rust
SM7608 : View south east from Pitting Gales Point, 1953 by David M Murray-Rust
SN0403 : Carew Castle, 1954 – 1 by David M Murray-Rust
SN0403 : Carew Bridge, 1954 by David M Murray-Rust
SW5743 : Godrevy Lighthouse, 1949 – 2 by David M Murray-Rust
ST0937 : White Horse Inn, Stogumber, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
SW5129 : St Michael's Mount, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
SW5138 : View from Knill's Monument, 1949 by David M Murray-Rust
SM8507 : Sandy Haven, 1953 by David M Murray-Rust

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Created: Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Updated: Mon, 13 Jan 2020

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