'Filey visitors'

The man at the back on the right is presenting a couple of eggs to the camera. He is the antiquarian and ornithologist Alwin Shutt Bell, an avid collector of birds’ eggs. His collection even included an egg of the great auk, extinct since 1844, which on his death in 1877 he left to the Scarborough Philosophical Society, an early predecessor of the Scarborough Museums Trust. It was somehow broken in 1906 but was subsequently repaired and still forms part of the Scarborough Collections today.

Photographed by W. Fisher of Filey in Yorkshire.