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From the Stanley Road, two hours walk from Stanley. [Distant view of the fort on the hill from the road].

Scope and Contents A 210 x 140 mm watercolour of Port Stanley looking east-north-east along the channel, with ships at anchor in the harbour, a few warehouses along the shore, and houses behind them on higher ground. There are two field guns, shielded behind an earth bank in the foreground, protecting the settlement. The initials G.M.H., just below the painting, are those of Georgena Maria Hamond, a daughter of Captain Philip Hamond. Philip Hamond was a friend of Sullivan’s who accompanied him and his...

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130 x 82 mm.

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158 x 111 mm. A view from across the harbour showing the buildings of Stanley which run down the hillside to the water's edge. In front of the Falkland Islands Company building is moored the hulk of an old sailing ship.

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158 x 113 mm. A view from across the harbour. At the left of the picture the hulk of the 'Great Britain' can be seen. Completed to the design of Isambard Brunel in 1849, she was the first iron-built, screw-driven vessel to cross the Atlantic. Damaged in a gale off the Horn in 1886, she sought shelter in Port Stanley and there remained until her return to Bristol in June 1970.

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160 x 115 mm. A photograph taken from a similar viewpoint to plate 1. In this picture the section of harbour that can be seen is still frozen, but the land is free of snow and grass is growing.

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151 x 107 mm. Showing houses in Port Stanley during winter, with snow covered fields and a section of the harbour in the foreground frozen.

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130 x 130 mm.

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Landscape format. [A closer view].

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Landscape format. [Probabaly Stanley, refer to 4442, but a more distant view].

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Landscape format. [General view of Stanley from above the cemetery]

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155 x 100 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

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115 x 158 mm. Showing a modern steamer in the harbour with the hulk of the 'Great Britain' partially visible beyond.

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On the reverse of the print is the reference '20A/2'.

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On the reverse of the print is the handwritten reference '26A/1'.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The backs of the houses which face on to the main street. [Showing houses on stilts with boats at the waters edge].

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217 x 165 mm.

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130 x 82 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains slides mainly in thick plastic frames marked 'Photopia', made in Germany, dark grey with a red top. The exceptions are numbers 72-75 in Kodachrome cardboard frames which link up with C and numbers 37-38 and 99-103 which are in silver Sytec frames. Some of the frames have brief captions pencilled on them, but these are very hard to read. Others have labels stuck on. A roughly written numbered list was in the original box. The list which follows has been derived from these...

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Half-plate (landscape format). [View down onto the harbour with boats in the bay]

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205 x 150 mm. The iron sailing ship ‘Bidstone Hill’ was constructed in 1886 by T. Royden & Sons, Liverpool. It put into Port Stanley in 1887 after damage to its masts and underwent repairs. During 1893-94 ‘Bidstone Hill’ was re-rigged as a fourmasted barque. It was wrecked in 1905 at Cape Furneaux, Argentina.

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205 x 145 mm.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Where the British troops landed in 1839. [A distant view of the town with hills behind taken from a boat].