Fish Tanks and Tide Pool Lessons

A marine study centre with six rooms. Top left is a library papered in swimming fish, where a woman reads an open atlas on a stand, a mother and boy look over a book and a shell. Next is a tiled laboratory, with two workers checking test tubes beneath charts of herring and cod. At top right a man studies a shell chart beside a green armchair and a brass bell. Below, an old man sketches by a shell shelf as children lean over a rail above a rocky touch pool of crabs and starfish. The middle room holds two big iron pumps, copper pipes and a worker in a yellow helmet. At bottom right a woman logs specimens at a sink under hanging nets and sieves. Blue tile, mosaic water and pipework tie the rooms together, each one easy to tell apart.