In one of our first blog posts, we showed you a picture of a mystery diver, who we dubbed our own Jacques Cousteau. Since then, we’ve come across a few more photos of divers, including this one from the 1920s:
So, who is this mysterious diver?

For one of the first posts of 2012, we’re looking back at another example of the Basin’s history captured on film.
It looks like there are at least three generations posing for this photo during a no doubt well-deserved tea break (after some hard yakka?). Decades later, I’m not sure which visual is more arresting for [...]

Today we’re starting a new series of posts that we will definitely need your help with. We have all manner of historical treasures hidden away in our archives. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of information on them. If you have a look at some of the photos in our image gallery, you’ll see all [...]