Nicholas Charles Williams

Nicholas Williams' studio is a former lifeboat station on the north coast

of Cornwall, South West England. Built in 1899, it had the steepest slip in Britain. Its crews (the RNLI) saved over 140 lives before the building's closure in 1935.

Lifeboat crew of the 'James Stevens No 5', 1909.

Photograph courtesy of the Woolf/Greenham Collection.