1950

SW6813 : Kynance Cove, 1950

taken 74 years ago, near to Lizard, Cornwall, England

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Kynance Cove, 1950
Kynance Cove, 1950
The view north east from Asparagus Island.
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: Kynance Cove Beach: Sand other tags: Cove Coastal Scenery Coastal Rocks Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Asparagus Island [24] · View across Kynance Cove [22] Title Clusters: · Kynance Cove, 1950 [2] ·
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SW6813, 168 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David M Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Contributed by
Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
1 September 1950   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 17 January, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 6843 1328 [10m precision]
WGS84: 49:58.4795N 5:13.8620W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SW 6832 1318
View Direction
Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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