Historical information

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century.

This series showcases photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s and shows people who lived and worked on the Island during the Jenkins period. This photograph shows the son of the owner of Churchill Island - Ted Jenkins - and 'Dido', the small Shetland pony.

Physical description

Sepia photograph white narrow white border of a man in a wheelchair gently holding the nose of a small pony, with another person standing at the extreme left of frame.

Digitised from a high resolution copy (original Polaroid is in poor and fragile condition)

Inscriptions & markings

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