Photograph: New light tower, Portland Island
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Williscroft, Murray (b.1930, d.2008)
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1958
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From a collection of photographs, slides and written notes by Murray Williscroft (1930-2008), lighthouse keeper and avid photographer. He and his wife Ventris Williscroft lived and worked on a number of lighthouse stations around the coast of New Zealand in the 1950s-1960s.
Murray Williscroft was a lighthouse keeper, who, along with his wife Ventris worked on a number of stations around New Zealand in the 1950s-60s.
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