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CÚL OF THE ROCK

          a  clue  or  clues  as  to  the  date  or  dates  on  which  they  were
          snapped. It was something I felt needed to be done; Derek had
          widely differing dates for some of them.

                                                      [6]
              On page 102 of his first (1993) book  he had reproduced
          what he describes as ‘a very old photograph of about 1860’. He
          is probably right. It appears to have been taken from the triangle
          that is still there today, minus the original grass, just level with
          the  bottom  of  Trafalgar  Road,  with  the  camera  focused
          nor’nor’west.



































              What it reveals is that the cottages at the Bawn have already
          been built, as have five or six other cottages further along the
          beach, but no two-storey house. The house named Alberta has

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