.A WG PHOTO ALBUM. (1) Parents Albert and Annie, circa 1890!(2) 66 Langdale Road, Victoria Park, Manchester, where WG was born on 30 June 1908

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1 .A WG PHOTO ALBUM. (1) Parents Albert and Annie, circa 1890!(2) 66 Langdale Road, Victoria Park, Manchester, where WG was born on 30 June 1908

2 !(3) Perranporth, 1927 (4) The young author circa 1934!

3 !(5) Wedding to Jean, 18 September 1939 (6) On Coastguard duty, 1941!

4 !(7) With Valerie Taylor circa 1945!

5 !(8) With Greta Gynt, female lead in 1947 film Take My Life (9) Circa 1948!

6 With Garrick: (10) At home, 1955!(11) On the beach, date unknown

7 !(12) and (13) Two from 1956!

8 1956, during the production of Fortune Is A Woman:!(14) With Jack Hawkins, who played Oliver Branwell, and co-writer/director Sidney Gilliat (15) With Arlene Dahl ("Sarah Moreton")

9 1957: (16) With Sidney Gilliat at the UK!premiere on 13 March of Fortune Is A Woman (17) At home in Perranporth

10 (18) Beach bum: West Pentire, date unknown!(19) Cooden Beach, Sussex, 1961

12 !Previous page and above: (20)-(23) Some from a series of publicity photos taken at WG's Buxted home, probably in the summer of 1962

13 !(24) With Hedren and Hitchcock on the set of Marnie circa 1963 (25) 1965!

15 Previous page and above: (26)-(29):!More publicity photos, probably taken in If you look carefully, you'll see that (26) and (28) are different renditions of the same image and that (29) is a cropped and enlarged version of (27)

16 !(30) Detroit, 1967!

17 (31), (32) Two more from 1967

18 !(33) and (34): Winston and Jean, dates unknown!

19 (35) Perranporth beach: the figure is the foreground is WG.!The building at top centre is Lech Carrygy, where most of Demelza was written. It burned down in 1984 the picture could have been taken at any time before that.

20 !(36) 1973!(37) At Trerice, Newquay in 1974!

21 !(38) and (39): With Peter Young and unknown man (top right) at Wendron Forge! (later renamed Poldark Mine), near Helston, Cornwall, in 1977

22 1977: (40) With Jane Wymark!(41) At home

23 !With (42) Angharad Rees and (43) Christopher Biggins!

25 !(44) (previous page) and (45): 1977, filming Poldark (S2) on location in Cornwall! (46) With Ralph ("Warleggan") Bates and Jean

26 !(47) and (48): At St. Winnow Church, Lostwithiel with BBC director! Roger Jenkins, "Lord Falmouth" actor Hugh Manning and Jean

27 1977: (49) With Robin Ellis!(50) At the Poldarks v. Warleggans charity cricket match held at Boconnoc Cricket Club WG, wearing a tie, stands in the back row between Ralph Bates and the man with the pint.

Page 28: (51) WG was given a small speaking part in a 1977 Poldark episode this was his costume but the scene was cut due to time constraints Page 29: But both Grahams did make brief non-speaking

30 Page 28: (51) WG was given a small speaking part in a 1977 Poldark episode this was his costume but the scene was cut due to time constraints Page 29: But both Grahams did make brief non-speaking appearances in the second series: (52) Jean, on the left of the picture, in Episode 9 and (53) Winston, with hat and cane, about to kiss "Morwenna" (Jane Wymark) just after her wedding to "Drake" (Kevin McNally) in Episode 13. Above: (54) With Poldark cast and crew, BBC Pebble Mill Studios, Birmingham, 1977

31 !(55) Pebble Mill, 1977, again, with "Demelza", "Jud" and "Ross" aka Angharad Rees,! Paul Curran and Robin Ellis (56) Same jacket, probably 1976

32 !(57) By Wheal Bush mine, Todpool, West Cornwall (58) With Jean at! Abbotswood, both dates unknown

33 !(59) At home: Buxted, 1983!

34 !1983: (60) At home and (61) In windy Falmouth!

35 !(62) 1984!

36 (63) Date unknown!(64) 1984

37 (65) Book signing, 1984!(66) At home, 1985

38 (67) 1987!(68) On Wogan, BBC1, 1 February 1988

39 !(69) With Jean at the wedding in August 1990 of Robin Ellis and! Meredith Wheeler (70) With Robin Ellis circa 1990

(71) This portrait of the author in his Abbotswood study is inscribed To the Museum Trust from Winston Graham with all good wishes, March 1991.

40 (71) This portrait of the author in his Abbotswood study is inscribed To the Museum Trust from Winston Graham with all good wishes, March WG accepted the Presidency of Perranzabuloe Museum on 8 October 1985 and remained "in office" until his death in In 2016 the role was assumed by his son Andrew. Despite what the watermark states, the Museum is no longer able to supply clean copies of this image.

41 (72) 1990!(73) 1995

42 !(74) and (75): At a Poldark Appreciation Society lunch, 1994!

43 !(76) At 90, with Angharad Rees, Oxford, 1998 (77) Back in his beloved garden!

44 !(78) and (79): At home, late 2000 or early 2001!

45 !At Poldark Mine, 12 May 2002: (80) On patrol and (81) With BBC Radio Cornwall! presenter Janette Eathorne

46 (82) Date unknown!(83) Book signing, 2002

47 !(84) Late era, date unknown (85) Together again: St. Margaret the Queen! churchyard, Buxted, East Sussex, 2015

48 CREDITS (1), (5), (6), (7), (8), (11), (14), (15), (18), (19), (24), (51), (58), (76), (77): Memoirs of a Private Man, Macmillan, 2003 (2) Google Street View (3), (71): Perranzabuloe Museum, Perranporth, Cornwall (4) A Ward, Lock publicity shot used on early dust jackets (9) As previous, used on Cordelia, Doubleday, 1949 et al. (10) The Tatler and Bystander, 16 November 1955 (12), (13): In 1956, this photo, credited to Walter Bird appeared of the back flap of the jacket of WG's then new novel The Sleeping Partner. (12), placed similarly on the jacket of Marnie in 1961, and (13), which first appeared in the October 1959 issue of Books and Bookmen, both derive from the same source. (16) Online resource "Three Hundred Years of Gilliat Family History" (17) The Tatler and Bystander, 3 April 1957 (25) Sussex Life, September 1965 (26)-(29): Mark Gerson; (26) features on the back cover of The Walking Stick, Collins, 1967, (27) was published in Summer 1971 issue of The Cornish Review and (28) in December 1967's Argosy (30) Gary Cooperman of the Detroit Daily News (31), (32) Alex Gotfryd; (31) is on the back panel of the dust jacket of The Walking Stick, Doubleday, 1967 (35), (57): Poldark's Cornwall, Webb & Bower / The Bodley Head, 1983 (36) Australian Woman's Weekly, 14 March 1973

(37) SWFTA, Plymouth (40), (46): Making Poldark, Robin Ellis, Palo Alto Publishing, 2012 (41) Sussex Express, 28 October 1977 (44), (45): Colin Antrobus (47), (48): Michael Williams (49), (50):

49 (37) SWFTA, Plymouth (40), (46): Making Poldark, Robin Ellis, Palo Alto Publishing, 2012 (41) Sussex Express, 28 October 1977 (44), (45): Colin Antrobus (47), (48): Michael Williams (49), (50): Poldark Country, David Clarke, Bossiney Books, 1977 (52), (53), (61), (68): video screenshots from Poldark, Series Two, episodes 9 and 13 / a TV South West broadcast from 1983 / Wogan, BBC1, 1 February 1988 (56) Peter Letts, from the dust jacket of The Four Swans, Collins, 1976 (59), (60): Woman's Weekly, 30 July 1983 (62), (64), (65): all from Cornish Life, January 1985 (63) Martin Val Baker (69), (70): Robin Ellis / Meredith Wheeler (73) Julian Calder, circa 1995 (74), (75): "Char Nanfan" on the WG&PLS online board (78), (79): Susannah Binney, from Brighton's Evening Argus Weekend magazine, 20 / 21 January 2001 (85) Taken by this author!(86) The Guardian, 12 July 2003! Remainder: source not known or not recorded. With thanks to all. * * * * *

Roberts Family Story. Edward Roberts. Thomas Roberts. 1746: Born in St Neot, Cornwall. Edward was a tinner (tin miner).

Roberts Family Story. Edward Roberts. Thomas Roberts. 1746: Born in St Neot, Cornwall. Edward was a tinner (tin miner). Roberts Family Story Edward Roberts 1746: Born in St Neot, Cornwall. Edward was a tinner (tin miner). 1765: Married Sarah Keast on 9 th May 1765 or 1766 St Neot (born 1744 at St Neot / Baptised 6th January