[caption reads in pencil] "Could it be cut. The famous conch shell at Brighton- but not at all as we wanted it- and really we cannot do with another picture of McGavin!! OM."
Photograph: Gervase de Peyer and Eric McGavin
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35mm slide: Hotel room
object | ARC/BAL/005/198
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Black and white negative of uniquely-shaped stilted house with shingles and shutters; side of head in frame on right
object | ARC/GUP/006/088/001
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Black and white print of people-filled boat on river (view from another boat)
object | ARC/GUP/006/097/002
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Photograph of 'Final assembly, inspection and packing of the ''Limpet'' bomb'
object | ARC/BH/BOO/012/001/003/048
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