Lost Cornwall

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The wonderful photographs appearing in this book are selected from a veritable treasure trove of images contained in the Reg Watkiss Archive. A photographer and artist who has lived almost half a century in Cornwall, the author began collecting prints and glass-plate negatives when he was young, and over the years he has been given and has sought out literally hundreds of photographs, many of which would have otherwise been lost. These photographs remind us that not all that is in the past was good, nor that all change is for the best. Poverty, danger to life and limb from mining and at sea, and hard toil for the majority are variously illustrated in these pages. But who could, on looking through the book, not also feel a sense of yearning for the uncomplicated daily life the images reveal, and a sense of gratitude in what might have passed beyond our knowing, except for the camera.