Tregony Gallery

Group of men at Daddyport bridge, Tregony, Cornwall. Around 1925

Qualification as a voter in Tregony required proof of house keeping by boiling a pot within the limits of the borough over an open fire, giving rise to the term pot wallopers to describe voters. 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

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