This beach hut armorial miniature has the coat of arms of Newquay on its roof. Newquay became a 'much frequented watering-place' by 1893, and postcards of the day show bathing huts like this one ...

If you look very closely you can even make out the names of the bathing hut proprietors: Laycock, Field and Hunter. This painting is actually only one half of what would have been a larger ...