Perranporth Gallery

Children on beach at Perranporth, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Early 1900s

Three children, a boy in a sailor suit, a girl in a dress and hat and a small child in a sunbonnet are playing on the beach. The boy has a spade and is watching the other two who are paddling and investigating a rockpool with a bucket. Two well dressed women are walking in the distance. The photograph was probably taken by the tail end of Chapel Rock. Photographer: Unknown

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Moonlight on Chapel Rock, Perranporth, Cornwall. Around 1925

Glass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots, given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925. He was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills and cine film to many groups including The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the London Cornish Society. The quarter plate slides which he took prolifically with his ordinary camera are, in many cases, colour. These were painted by his own hand to great effect

© From the collection of the RIC