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Let’s hope Plymouth continues to be underfunded and never wrecks its 1950s architecture.
Scott | Homepage | 15.03.20 - 7:35 a.m. | #
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Hope you managed to get a Ron Dewneys tiddly oggie, (pasty).
Scrumpy | 15.03.20 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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Ron was bought out by Ivor fairly recently, and closed down.
dg writes: In 2014.
Colly | 15.03.20 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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Aaah, all the way to Plymouth and it was closed! I've had a few trips like that, in my time. 😟
Jo W | 15.03.20 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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I still have a "Mayflower 350" commemorative mug, a gift from a Great Aunt who attended a celebratory event. It has survived because the script and image of the vessel are in a coppery metallic that I have always liked. It has been ornamental, rather than useful.
RosemaryT | 15.03.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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AS a child growing up in Cornwall, a longed-for treat was to go to Dingles to ride on the escalator. It also had in a glass case, a model village where vehicles moved, driven by a bicycle chain. Was it an ad for Clark's shoes?
mikeS | 15.03.20 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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MikeS - My mum has similar memories of "furrin" holidays visiting post-war Plymouth!
My memories are from the 1970s when my dad was based in that branch of his company each week for a few years. Rather than move the whole family he rented and we visited.
His office was in a lovely Elizabethan house (which made me wonder if it was THE one, but it wasn't!) that had paneling, winding staircases and plenty of nooks and crannies for 2 bored kids to play hide and seek while waiting for his work day to end!
I was more excited about a day in Plymouth than my daughter was when I took her for a uni open day! (Megabus - similar amount of time - similar GWR sale price every day!)
Cornish Cockney | 15.03.20 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Ah! DG visits us in Plymouth!
Even in non-Mayflower years hardly anything here is open until after Easter; we really seem to have internalised this idea that this is a summer city...
James | 15.03.20 - 11:28 a.m. | #
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Ah Plymouth! My home city -- off and on -- until I was 8. For the rest of my childhood we paid an annual visit while holidaying in Cornwall.
I went back there for the first time for many years just four weeks ago, in order to see my first ever Plymouth Argyle match. Great experience, even though it took place the weekend of Storm Dennis, helped by the fact that PAFC beat Crewe 2-1.
I was also able to get a blogpost out of it.
Charles | Homepage | 15.03.20 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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A very enjoyable read, thanks. As a bonus, a first time encounter with the word cobblier:)
Toni | 15.03.20 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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I went to university in Plymouth so this brings back some good memories.
I was planning a return trip at Easter but maybe better to wait until summer.
Paul | Homepage | 15.03.20 - 2:50 p.m. | #
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The Plymouth Gin Distillery is a good rainy day attraction
A bit further out, but the Torpoint Chain Ferry and Tamar rail bridge are both well worth a visit/crossing too
Mikey C | 15.03.20 - 3:11 p.m. | #
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I also liked the word cobblier.
Unfortunately some pedant will no doubt point out that the paving in the photo appears to be made of setts rather than cobbles.
dg writes: I hope nobody does.
Bob L-S | 15.03.20 - 7:31 p.m. | #
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If you had walked beyond the Barbican to Sutton Harbour, you could have seen a very rare dual gauge set of points embedded in the cobbled seats. For the uninitiated, that is Brunel's 7ft gauge rail crossing over a standard gauge line of 4ft8½-inch track.
Petras409 | 15.03.20 - 8:11 p.m. | #
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The biggest issue with the centre of Plymouth is, that like so many post-war rebuilds, it is built for the car. It is hard to believe when standing waiting to cross one of the many dual carriageways that could be anywhere in the country that barely half or mile or so away is one of the finest sea views you could hope to see.
The other frustration is that it is not possible to walk along the sea front from King William Yard to the Hoe and have to divert inland.
cjw714 | 16.03.20 - 2:52 a.m. | #
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Drake’s Island was open to the public this weekend for the first time in ages
Brian | 16.03.20 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Today (16th September) is the day of the Mayflower quatercentenary.
Alas hardly any tourists turned up to celebrate in Plymouth, and The Box won't be ready to open until the end of the month (so the anniversary exhibition there has also missed the boat).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.09.20 - 6:51 p.m. | #
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