1964

NU2519 : Craster Harbour, 1964 – 1

taken 61 years ago, near to Craster, Northumberland, England

Craster Harbour, 1964 – 1
Craster Harbour, 1964 – 1
Traditional coble fishing boat being drawn up the beach inside the harbour.
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: Historic sites and artefacts Farm, Fishery, Market Gardening Village, Rural settlement Place: Craster other tags: Fishing Boats Harbour Scene Fishing Coble Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Boats at Craster [41] · Boats on the Beach [10] · Beach Inside [4] ·
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Photographer
David M Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Contributed by
Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
8 August 1964   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NU 2585 1998 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:28.3781N 1:35.5582W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NU 2579 1994
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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