The new Drake Circus
A Tamar River Trip, Plymouth, Devon - 30th May 2016
It's back over the moor again, this time to Plymouth - once Nosher's home for a few years at the end of the 1980s. We start out at the re-developed Drake Circus and then head out past the former Civic Centre, which looks like it's being either re-developed or prepared for demolition. After that we cross the Hoe, go up "Smeaton's Willy", walk to the Barbican for Fish and chips and finally do a "dockyards and warships" boat tour up the Tamar.
next album: Spreyton to Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire - 31st May 2016
previous album: A Visit to Okehampton Castle and Dartmoor, Devon - 28th May 2016
The now-covered top end of New George Street
Steel and Glass, and the old Money Centre
New George Street
More New George Street
Fred does a roundabout ride
Harry has a go on a roundabout
Harry in a mini lorry
The old Dingles/House of Fraser
Royal Parade, towards Derry's Cross
Demolition or renovation? The former Civic Centre
The stark 1962 concrete of the Civic Centre
The Civic Centre: 1960s concrete
Fred and Harry on the HMS Ark Royal anchor
Isobel and Harry near the Mayflower Hotel
Some knobwit has torched a dustbin
The Navy Memorial
Fred walks around the memorial
Harry gets a bit nervous in Smeaton's Tower
Biblical carving in Smeaton's Tower
The view from the top of the lighthouse
The stripey Tinside Lido and Plymouth Sound
West Hoe
The thing that looked like a church has gone
Plymouth Hoe
Looking towards Madeira Road and Plymstock
The gang at the base of Smeaton's Tower
Compulsory cliché photo of Smeaton's Tower
East Hoe and the Citadel
The gang eat ice cream
The queues have died down at the ice cream van
A fishing boat heads out to sea
Harry and Isobel look out to sea
The almost-tropical waters of the Sound
The boys climb all over a cannon
Fred pokes at a cannon
Harry climbs on too
Southside Street in the Barbican
The boys in Harbourside Fish and Chips
It's heaving in Harbourside Fish and Chip Shop
We eat our chips on the Mayflower pier
Mayflower Pier
The Barbican from Mayflower Pier
Where the fishing boats and fish market used to be
The new Mayflower Museum
A couple of research vessels are docked
The Barbican Landing Stage
Fred on the landing stage
Isobel's hair is blown in the wind
Waiting for the off
The Hoe, as seen from The Sound
A derelict swimming construction
Tinside Lido
The 'Quality Hotel' looks derelict
The Belvedere
Former wartime gun emplacements
The Royal William Yard in Devonport
An old boatshed down at Devonport
D34 HMS Diamond, a Type-45 Daring-class destroyer
F235, HMS Monmouth, steams out to the Sound
The massive ship sheds at Devonport
There's a ship in for servicing
Type 23's F82 HMS Somerset and F79 HMS Portland
HMS Somerset at Devonport
L12 HMS Ocean - the Royal Navy's biggest ship
Another view of L12 HMS Ocean
The Edgecumb Arms, over in Cornwall
On the tour boat on the Sound
The West Vanguard navigation buoy
Harry looks up and scowls
The other passengers on the boat
Fred comes up topside
Back at Cattewater
We leave the tour boat
Back on dry land
The Barbican and its bunting
A derelict building
Lenkiewicz's original mural has been trashed
Isobel and Gabes wander up Buckwell Street
Fred takes a break
A glimpse of the Civic Centre from Buckwell Street
The Post Office on Exeter Street
Lloyds Bank on Royal Parade
Royal Parade is almost empty
Old Town Street
The boys on Old Town Street
Back at the new Drake Circus
A view over the car park
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The new Drake Circus
The new Drake Circus
The now-covered top end of New George Street
Steel and Glass, and the old Money Centre
New George Street
More New George Street
Fred does a roundabout ride
Harry has a go on a roundabout
Harry in a mini lorry
The old Dingles/House of Fraser
Royal Parade, towards Derry's Cross
Demolition or renovation? The former Civic Centre
The stark 1962 concrete of the Civic Centre
The Civic Centre: 1960s concrete
Fred and Harry on the HMS Ark Royal anchor
Isobel and Harry near the Mayflower Hotel
Some knobwit has torched a dustbin
The Navy Memorial
Fred walks around the memorial
Harry gets a bit nervous in Smeaton's Tower
Biblical carving in Smeaton's Tower
The view from the top of the lighthouse
The stripey Tinside Lido and Plymouth Sound
West Hoe
The thing that looked like a church has gone
Plymouth Hoe
Looking towards Madeira Road and Plymstock
The gang at the base of Smeaton's Tower
Compulsory cliché photo of Smeaton's Tower
East Hoe and the Citadel
The gang eat ice cream
The queues have died down at the ice cream van
A fishing boat heads out to sea
Harry and Isobel look out to sea
The almost-tropical waters of the Sound
The boys climb all over a cannon
Fred pokes at a cannon
Harry climbs on too
Southside Street in the Barbican
The boys in Harbourside Fish and Chips
It's heaving in Harbourside Fish and Chip Shop
We eat our chips on the Mayflower pier
Mayflower Pier
The Barbican from Mayflower Pier
Where the fishing boats and fish market used to be
The new Mayflower Museum
A couple of research vessels are docked
The Barbican Landing Stage
Fred on the landing stage
Isobel's hair is blown in the wind
Waiting for the off
The Hoe, as seen from The Sound
A derelict swimming construction
Tinside Lido
The 'Quality Hotel' looks derelict
The Belvedere
Former wartime gun emplacements
The Royal William Yard in Devonport
An old boatshed down at Devonport
D34 HMS Diamond, a Type-45 Daring-class destroyer
F235, HMS Monmouth, steams out to the Sound
The massive ship sheds at Devonport
There's a ship in for servicing
Type 23's F82 HMS Somerset and F79 HMS Portland
HMS Somerset at Devonport
L12 HMS Ocean - the Royal Navy's biggest ship
Another view of L12 HMS Ocean
The Edgecumb Arms, over in Cornwall
On the tour boat on the Sound
The West Vanguard navigation buoy
Harry looks up and scowls
The other passengers on the boat
Fred comes up topside
Back at Cattewater
We leave the tour boat
Back on dry land
The Barbican and its bunting
A derelict building
Lenkiewicz's original mural has been trashed
Isobel and Gabes wander up Buckwell Street
Fred takes a break
A glimpse of the Civic Centre from Buckwell Street
The Post Office on Exeter Street
Lloyds Bank on Royal Parade
Royal Parade is almost empty
Old Town Street
The boys on Old Town Street
Back at the new Drake Circus
A view over the car park