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finally, 5 impressions from the north side of the "Valhalla Museum", which show, among other things, figureheads - excerpt from "tresco.co.uk": the unique Valhalla collection, contains some 30 figureheads, as well as name boards and other decorative ships’ carvings from the days of sail. Over the years, many ships and lives have been lost on the rocky coasts of the Scillies and it is from shipwrecks - mostly of merchant vessels - that the collection was built up, starting in about 1840, by "Augustus Smith" of "Tresco Abbey", ‘Lord Proprietor’ of the Islands. |
