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Hastings Pier
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Photograph
Black and white photograph of Hastings Pier Ballroom conference view…
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Dish
Small greenware dish with crackled glaze. Incised flowers under glaze…
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Mammal
Skull and lower jaw of pygmy shrew, female, very tiny!…
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