Sea Weed Collection

Dawlish Low Tide
The beach at Dawlish, Devon, at low tide : the tide has washed up an enormous quantity of seaweed which lies between the sand and the water

THE SIREN
A siren or mermaid sits on a rock in the middle of the sea gazing wistfully after a galleon ship sailing off into the distance

Examples of art on the RMS Queen Mary. At the top left are four statuettes carved from limewood blocks by Norman J Forrest, representing The Four Seasons, for the main tourist class staircase

Seaweed & other Flora
Various seaweed and other submarine flora

Watercolour sketch of Pegwell Bay, Kent
A delightful watercolour sketch of Pegwell Bay, Kent, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

British Empire Exhibition Poster

Gathering seaweed for fertiliser - Channel Islands
Gathering seaweed ( wracking ) for use as fertilizer at a low spring tide - Channel Islands Date: 1907

Swans & Cygnets
Swans and cygnets on the seaweed fringes of Loch Linnhe, at Appin, Argyllshire, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Salvation Army Womens Night Shelter, East London
The dormitory of the Salvation Army night shelter for women, opened in 1889 at 194 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel in the East End of London

Woman carrying basket of seaweed along a beach
A middle-aged woman carrying a heavy basket of seaweed along a beach in Portugal

Miss UK regional finals, St Ives, Cornwall
One of the contestants in the Miss UK regional finals poses in St Ives harbour, Cornwall in a revealing one-piece swimsuit

Child and watering cans
A young child playing with two small watering cans. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Gathering seaweed for food, Ireland
Scenes showing men, women and children gathering seaweed for food on the coast of Clare, west of Ireland. They are also shown picking, drying and selling d hlisk, and gathering corrigan

Children / Sandcastle 1890
A brother adds turrets to the castle that he and his brother and sister have made, while another sister offers a piece of seaweed as decoration

Children and Dog Onbeach
A dog chases after a fine piece of seaweed tugged by a girl across the sand, while her brother runs behind. Note the ladies sheltering beneath their parasols

Underwater Scene
Seaweed beneath the Adriatic

Jersey / Seaweed Harvest
Harvesting seaweed and loading it on to carts in Jersey

Swimmers at Hastings
Two girls stand on a seaweed- covered rock at low tide at Hastings, showing off their two-piece bathing costumes which consist of shorts or bloomers & tunics

Water Babies Kissing
Tom & the water baby hug & kiss, whilst a startled fish looks on

Children on the Beach
Four young children enjoy an ice cream on the beach

Biarritz Canoers
Two girls paddling their canoe dangerously close to some seaweed-covered rocks at Biarritz, France

Sailors Homecoming 1880S
A motherly welcome for a young sailor home for Christmas leave. A hug from mamma in the parlour is surrounded by a frame of seaweed

Water Babies Scene / 1909
An underwater scene

Water Babies / Tom / Cabinet
Lured by the temptation of the sea-lollipops, Tom creeps among the rocks & finds the mother-of-pearl cabinet in a deep crack in the rocks containing them; & behold! it was open!

Water Babies / Kingsley
And sit upon a point of rock, among the shining sea-weeds; Tom with the fairies on the beach

Queen of Water Babies
The Queen of them all, with green water-weeds floating at her sides, is led back by the water babies after having brought Tom to the waters edge in the outside world

Water Babies / Goble / 1909
An illustration to the song of the river: Play by me, bathe in me, mother & child ; shows a fairy mother her son at the waters edge

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