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197 x 136 mm. Showing the lawn and near façade of Admiralty House.

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200 x 132 mm. Showing a group of boys and girls in fancy dress posed against a hedge, with a building in the background. With a few adults at the side of the group.

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205 x 154 mm. A view looking south from Kalk Bay (in False Bay) towards Simon's Town and Cape Point on the horizon.

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202 x 128 mm. Showing a group of sailors posed outside their tents at Red Hill with a stony slope in the background.

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207 x 138 mm. A view looking west along St. George's Street (known as such only since the beginning of the present century) with the parsonage House (now known as Rectory Building) in the left foreground and private residences and commercial premises lining the street beyond.

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233 x 167 mm. Showing a group of men and women at the newly built tennis courts at Simon's Town, with a military band at the left of the print.

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139 x 69 mm. A view looking across a bay with a settlement on the farther side and a headland beyond. With two sailing boats moored in the bay and wooden frameworks (?for drying fishing nets) in the foreground. A note on the reverse in C.W. Busk's hand adds: 'Don't remember this: think it Simon's Town [i.e. Simonstad]'. This appears to be correct and the headland is similar to those north of the town.

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213 x 154 mm. A view from the shore looking down onto Simon's Bay which is crowded with craft of various sizes at anchor. HMS Powerful, a twin funnelled cruiser, lies at anchor in the centre of the shipping. The date of Powerful's visit to Simon's Town has not been established but this photograph was possibly taken during the Boer War: if so, the large ship at anchor at the right is possibly one of the vessels used for a time as a Boer prisoner of war rest camp.

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196 x 148 mm. A view looking over the pews towards the altar

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204 x 153 mm. A view looking along the waterfront at Simon's Town with a railway pier and wharves in the foreground.

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208 x 151 mm. A view from the Bay looking towards the waterfront, with hills rising behind the town.

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148 x 205 mm. A view looking down onto a street in Simon's Town where a crowd of spectators are marching alongside a band and a contingent of troops from HMS Powerful.

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211 x 157 mm. Showing HMS Powerful steaming out of Simon's Town Bay.

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184 x 127 mm. A view looking northwards along the waterfront at Simonstown towards the west dockyard, with a steamer in dock on the slipway and the mast house (with small square tower) beyond. On a slight rise behind the town is the Wesleyan Chapel.

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284 x 220 mm. A view looking across Simon's Bay towards the waterfront of Simon's Town [i.e. Simonstad], with the waterfront road in the foreground. A note in C.W. Busk's hand adds: 'The railway from Cape Town passes round via Kalk Bay on the edge of the water. Kalk Bay is away to the left on this side of the sea'.

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294 x 227 mm. Showing the northern section of Simon's Bay and Simon's Town [i.e. Simonstad]. This photograph, taken from the same viewpoint as Y3059A/33, forms an overlapping panorama of the bay and town when placed beside it.

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203 x 151 mm. A view looking down on to Simon's Bay, with part of Simon's Town [Simonstad] visible at the right and the naval base and dockyards (built between 1899 and 1910) in the background.

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209 x 159 mm. A view looking across the newly made tennis courts towards a group of men and women posed on the further side.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of a negatives album, produced by Lennon Ltd., Cape Town, containing 125 x 95 mm negatives and an envelope with six further negatives of the same size. Some are poor photographs but many that are apparently very faint contain a good deal of detail. Seven modern prints have also been made and are listed as Y305U/105-111. The images were taken by Albert Ernest Lamb and the captions are from the list in the front of the album. The captions have been used as titles...