Alt Ref NoBMSS/35449
TitleAlbum formerly in the possession of W.J. Parry (1842-1927) of Coetmor Hall, Bethesda. It is marked no. 15. "The album was probably compiled by a serviceman who took part in the Crimean campaign of 1854-1855.
DescriptionIt contains pencil sketches of Gibraltar, various parts of the Mediterranean coast, the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, the Bosphorus and the Crimean Peninsula (including the port of Balaclava, the camp of the Second Division [at Inkerman], and the ruins of Inkerman) and also photgraphs of a Turkish lady, a Greek preist (both coloured), the port of Balaclava, a small family group, an English garden, two gentlemen with horses and several groups of fearsome looking soldiers standing outside a military barracks (probably the barracks of the School of Musketry at Hythe, co. Kent).

Among the loose insertions is a pencil sketch of a railway station (almost certainly Bodorgan Station, co. Anglesey)
Date1854-1858
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