Guano and Pearls, Steamships and Suffragettes....

Video | Updated 7 years ago

Michael McCarthy, Curator of Maritime Archaeology

How did the SS Xantho sink overloaded with lead ore at Port Gregory? Take a journey through the lives of pioneering ship merchant and businessman Charles Broadhurst, his wife Eliza an early feminist, his son Florance the award winning guano merchant and his daughter Kitty the suffragette.

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