Ed reads the newspaper on the beach
Uni: A Neath Road Summer, St. Jude's, Plymouth - 18th August 1987
Nosher's staying in Plymouth for the entire summer. This means signing on, which is an interesting experience in itself - Nosher is decorating Ed's house in part-payment for rent, but the dole money goes on food. This means a diet of mostly cheese sandwiches for a couple of months, with some apple sauce out of a jar as a special treat now and again. Food was generally paid for by cheque, and was purchased from the Co-op around the corner, requiring writing a cheque out to "Plymouth and South West Devon Cooperative Society" - quite a bit to cram on to a small piece of paper. During the summer, a request came along to paint a 12'x6' mural for the Royal British Legion, for their Union Street premises on the Octagon roundabout. Painting was done during the night, from about midnight to 6am whilst it was nice and quiet. The finished mural featured four sections representing the four services - navy, army, air and merchant - with a Leander-class Type 12 frigate, a Scorpion Tank, a Harrier jump-jet and a Merchant ship, with the RBL lion crest in the middle - all painted with those little pots of sample emulsion paint you could get from Woolworths. It looked quite impressive too when mounted on the wall, although sadly no photos of it exist. The sunrise photos in this set are from one of these painting mornings, at about 4.30am.
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The back alley of Neath Road
Sunrise and a pylon, looking over Embankment Road
Another view of the River Plym
A climbing frame in the sunrise
Another sunrise over Embankment Road
Roland and Ed
Roland, Ed and Barbara
Sunrise over the River Plym
Barbara gives Christmas the kitten a scratch on the head
A random parakeet is spotted somewhere
Barbara intruduces the kitten to the rabbit
Christmas the kitten
Barbara in the garden
Barbara with Christmas the kitten
Ed gives Friday the rabbit a brush
Friday and Barbara
Ed and Barbara hang out
Barbara plays with the kitten
Christmas the kitten
Assorted bathers near Tinside Lido
Mountbatten Point at The Sound
Dark red house on the corner of Lockyer Street and the Esplanade
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Ed reads the newspaper on the beach
Ed reads the newspaper on the beach
The back alley of Neath Road
Sunrise and a pylon, looking over Embankment Road
Another view of the River Plym
A climbing frame in the sunrise
Another sunrise over Embankment Road
Roland and Ed
Roland, Ed and Barbara
Sunrise over the River Plym
Barbara gives Christmas the kitten a scratch on the head
A random parakeet is spotted somewhere
Barbara intruduces the kitten to the rabbit
Christmas the kitten
Barbara in the garden
Barbara with Christmas the kitten
Ed gives Friday the rabbit a brush
Friday and Barbara
Ed and Barbara hang out
Barbara plays with the kitten
Christmas the kitten
Assorted bathers near Tinside Lido
Mountbatten Point at The Sound
Dark red house on the corner of Lockyer Street and the Esplanade