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Brighton from West Pier (Glass photonegative)
Brighton Beach and Palace Pier (Glass photonegative)
G3530; Port Isaac from one Harbour. Glass photonegative
Port Isaac from one Harbour (Glass photonegative)
Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
Wreck of the 'Gothland' off the Isles of Scilly (photographic print)
Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
Lunar Sea (Photographic print)
G3292;FRENCHMAN (1892); A port near beam view from just aft of broadside; Under way leaving Bridlington harbour northwards with passengers. SCARBOROUGH (1866); A port bow view; Alongside the end of the east breakwater at Bridlington. Similar to G3291 but from a slightly different viewpoint. The paddle steamer FRENCHMAN (1892) is heading northward with passengers and the paddle steamer SCARBOROUGH (1866) is at the end of the east breakwater. Francis Frith & Co negative no.66245.
Bridlington harbour, Yorkshire. (Glass photonegative)
G2393;The RNLI lifeboat on its launching slipway at the foot of Harbour Street, Broadstairs, with the houses of Albion Street in the background. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 19719.
The seafront with lifeboat on the slipway, Broadstairs, Kent. (Glass photonegative)
G3237;A photograph, looking west, along Bexhill beach, showing a group of holidaymakers posing beside and within a yawl-rigged fishing boat adapted for pleasure boating. A few beach huts are visible in the background. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 62932.
Bexhill beach with holidaymakers, Sussex. (Glass photonegative)
G3152;The quay at Buck Mills, foreshore and cliffs looking east at low tide. The East Kiln (built in 1760) is on the cliff side. On the steep track leading from the beach to the village are two pack donkeys with their boy attendants. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 55987.
Pack donkeys with boy attendants, Bucks Mills, Devon (Glass photonegative)
G3304;Looking north east along the sands at low tide showing children making sand castles and strolling on the sands. Two Morecambe Bay prawners are dried out. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 67427.
Children playing on beach, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria (Glass photonegative)
G2972;Looking east from the beach below West Cliff with the pier, completed in 1901, in the background. Holidaymakers are sitting on the beach and in a whelk boat drawn up on the sands. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 46518.
Cromer beach, Norfolk (Glass photonegative)
G3165;Looking along a cobbled thoroughfare known as The Fradgan with fishermen's cottages on either side. The punt belonging to the 1st class lugger JENNY LIND PZ.58 has its bowler-hatted owner, Mr. Downing, standing at the transom. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 56533.
Newlyn Court, Cornwall (Glass photonegative)
G3238;Looking east from the beach below Grand Parade towards Eastbourne pier in the background. A two-masted lugger crowded with passengers is beaching, watched by a few families from the shore. There is a dog on the beach and another in the lugger. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 62958.
A lugger with passengers beaching at Eastbourne, Sussex (Glass photonegative)
G2445;A view looking west-by-north from The Warren across the harbour entrance at Polperro, which is blocked by fishing vessels with crews aboard. It is low tide and some are just afloat, while others are on beaching legs. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 21273.
Polperro harbour at low tide, Cornwall (Glass photonegative)
G2474;The fishing fleet in the outer harbour with sails sets waiting for a breeze. Identifiable boats are DH.213, DH.105, DH.121, DH.66, DH.737 and DH.191. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 21558.
Fishing fleet waiting for a breeze, Brixham, Devon. (Glass photonegative)
G3163;Looking south-east from the corner of Church Street and Fore Street showing pilchard drivers in the old harbour. Groups of fishermen are lounging about and washing is hung over the roadside handrails. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 56523.
Newlyn harbour, Cornwall (Glass photonegative)
G2624;Looking north-west from the pier in the River Wyre estuary to the North Euston Hotel, the low lighthouse and the customs watch house. The shrimper 78.FD (Morecambe Bay prawner) is at the water's edgte and children are paddling. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 30421.
Beach and customs watch house, Fleetwood, Lancashire (Glass photonegative)
G3429; Seaton seafront and Wesleigh Hotel, Devon. Looking north-west from the foreshore of Seaton up Castle Hill with the Cliff Private Hotel (far left) and the Westleigh Hotel (far right) in the background. In the foreground boatmen and small boys are operating a hand-worked capstan. Charabancs operated by Silver Cars are parked at the foot of Castle Hill. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 79822.
Seaton seafront and Wesleigh Hotel, Devon (Glass photonegative)
G2795;ANN, JOHN & MARY (1888); A starboard quarter view; Shown with crew. Mounted on horse drawn carriage in a street at Skegness. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 38419.; The fully manned RNLI lifeboat on a 4-wheeled carriage in a Skegness street. The boat is probably the ANN, JOHN & MARY (1888), Official No. 203, a 37 ft, 12 oared, self-righter that served at Skegness 1888-1906. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 38419.
Lifeboat crew, Skegness, Lincolnshire (Glass photonegative)
G3256;Looking north from the steps on the pier to Preesall Sands at low tide showing shrimpers, including FD.214, FD.31 and FD.225, at the water's edge watched by a few holidaymakers. Francis Frith & co negative no. 64423.
Shrimpers moored bow-to at Preesall Sands, Fleetwood, Lancashire (Glass photonegative)
G3483;Like Looe and Polperro, Mevagissey was the home of a fishing fleet employed in drift­net and line fishing. In 1895, Mevagissey is said to have become the first place to have electric street lighting, the new power station being powered entirely by pilchard oil. Today tourism, rather than fishing, is the dominant industry in the village.
A view across the harbour at Mevagissey, Cornwall (Glass photonegative)
G3164;The fish market on The Strand. Conger eels are laid out on the ground. A woman in the foreground is reading a note while carrying a wicker basket which is supported by a strap over her head. The premises of W C Olds is in the right background. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 56525.
Fish market, Newlyn, Cornwall (Glass photonegative)
G3185;A group of five local boatmen mending half-cylinder lobster pots on the promenade at Sheringham. Francis Frith & Co negative no. 56879.
Fishermen with lobster pots, Sheringham, Norfolk (Glass photonegative)
G3631; The herring fleet anchored offshore with sails set, taken from the beach. Bathing machines are in the water and parked on the beach with small group of people walking close the waterline.
The herring fleet anchored offshore, Scarborough, Yorkshire (Glass photonegative)