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Speculatively, I believe it was taken early enough on the
following forenoon. The gables of the only two cottages that are
visible up the north beach are in shadow, whereas the fronts of
the cottages are sunlit.

In the photo, the north end of the ‘crab wall’ is just visible and
there is an excellent view of the shop that was McEntaggart’s
then, and Dann’s in my time, and of Duncairn Terrace, the railway
arch, the Lifeboat House and Alberta. Something over half a
dozen snuffs are pulled high up on the beach, with a scatter of
skiffs and smaller rowing boats just below them. Two transom-
sterned boats, closer to the crab wall, are painted in brighter
colours. The long, dark skiff below the Lifeboat House is still
astraddle the line of wrack at the high tide mark, and what appear
to be three men are sitting on the beach not far away; taking a
breather, perhaps, after spreading herring nets out to dry. What
looks like a spread of nets can be seen just beyond the skiff and
the men on the beach. In the foreground a man looks over the
round-topped concrete wall I vaulted over so many times in my

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