Images Dated 5th March 2016

March - Tossing the Pancake

A Victorian cook, kitchen maid and the family of the house enjoying the traditional Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) pancake tossing excitement in the kitchen. From "The Comic Almanack for 1837: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest Containing All Things Fitting For Such Work by Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. - Adorned with a dozen of Righte Merrie Cuts pertaining to the Months, and an Hieroglyphic, by George Cruikshank." Published in London by Charles Tilt Bibliopolist, 1836

© Linda Steward

The ship, Bay of Panama, Falmouth, Cornwall. March 1891

Four masted ship, wrecked on Nare Point, Falmouth in the great blizzard of 10 March 1891. She was bound from Calcutta to Dundee with 13000 bales of jute. Captain David Wright hove to in deteriorating weather as he approached the Cornish coast to take soundings. Later, forereaching under bare poles in a blinding blizzard she drove on to the cliffs at Nare Point, 7 miles from Falmouth. The captain, his wife and several of the crew were drowned, others froze to death clinging to the rigging. There were only 17 survivors out of a ship's company of 40. Photographer: Unknown

© From the collection of the RIC

Great Meteoron and Varlaam monasteries

The two largest monasteries of the Meteora in Greece. They were built as refuges on sandstone pinnacles and cliffs. Great Meteoron (at the back on the left) was founded in the mid 15th century and Varlaam a hundred years later

© John Phillips 2016

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