1969 March - Sparrow Cove, Falkland Islands [Malvinas]. Wooden dead-eyes and traditional hemp rope stays on the port side for the huge foremast of the Great Britain. Here the Great Britain lies where she was beached in April 1937 and it is unlikely that these ropes had been touched since then. The ropes could be even older as the Great Britain as a steamship was converted to sail in the late 1870s.

Camera - Nikon F 35mm with Nikkor 5.8cm F1.4 lens. Film - Kodak Plus X Pan 1/250 second F11. Developed by hand in Stanley in the darkroom of local photographer John Leonard using Kodak Microdol at normal dilution.

Negative - SSGB 69-06-21 © Marion Morrison

In 1970 the original hull designed and built by William Paterson was taken from the Falkland Islands [Malvinas] to Bristol, England. After many years the hull has now been restored and forms the basis of the splendid reconstruction of the 1843 steamship SS Great Britain, conceived by the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.