Our village lies within the boundaries of the city of Plymouth in Devon, a naval port and not forgetting home to Plymouth Gin which has been distilled here since 1793. As some of you may already know in 1588 Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe before sailing out with the fleet to fight off the Spanish Armada and the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth in 1620 for the New World. Nancy Astor, became the first woman MP in 1919 representing the constituency of Sutton in Plymouth.
John Smeaton’s Eddystone Lighthouse was dismantled in 1877 brick by brick and brought back to Plymouth Hoe to be re-built and where it remains one of the city’s more prominent landmarks.
In the literary world in 1882 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle worked at friend’s medical practice here and later went on to write the Hounds of the Baskervilles set on Dartmoor. Aircraftsman Shaw also known as Lawrence of Arabia served with the RAF in Plymouth.
So that’s it from my neck of the woods, what’s happening in yours?
Couldn’t agree more – if it’s fraught it spills over into the week. Adore the ice cream cart!
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Meant to ask you if you ever catch the Brittany Ferry on your travels
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I used to live in Plymouth… long long long time ago. Erh can you please send me some bacon, I am down to my last pack 😦
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PS today is my birthday, so we will spend the day continuing my birthday celebrations that we started 3 days ago. 😉
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Did you have a good birthday? What were you doing when you lived in Plymouth?
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I am still having a good birthday 🙂 3 of my friends birthdays are in November so last night we had another dinner/party to celebrate altogether.
My dad was in the navy so we lived in Plymouth for around 5 years. Nice weather;)
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Great pics, Dallas. I’m a sucker for lighthouses, but I’ll give the Big Wheel a miss. 🙂
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This big wheel similar to the “eye” in London costs an absolute fortune
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Plymouth looks like a cool place to visit, I will definitely put it on my wait list.
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It is a beautiful place but I love anywhere near the sea
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What a lovely place to live! I’d love to tuck into a tea shop in that cobblestone street for a warm cup. Thanks for sharing! Hope I get to visit some day. By the time I get there, though, where will Dallas be?? 🙂
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And I love Ferris Wheels, as you will see in my next episode of “Late Bloomer!” – Kaye
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Just caught it so see what you mean now; but still wouldn’t go up in one!
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Reminds me of my walkabout there last year! I liked Plymouth. In my neck of the woods, settling in body clocks and normal routines after a fantastic trip to the US. I hope you weren’t affected by the bad weather recently.
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We were lucky as the storm wasn’t anywhere near as bad as predicted – did you have a good trip and took lots of pics?
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That’s good. It was brilliant thanks, and I have more photos than you can shake a tripod at.
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Loved the pics, I’m a sucker for a good lighthouse.
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They make great stories
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Love the lighthouse and the bench beside it, facing the water. If these were shot by your photographic assistant Dallas, he has a career other than growing prize blooms ahead 🙂
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He had a good laugh at this Madhu and said it was “praise indeed” coming from you
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Plymouth Hoe is the furthest West I’ve been – never made it as far as Cornwall. I passed someone I knew from home going up the lighthouse! Lovely pics of a very happy holiday we took when the kids were small 🙂
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I’m surprised at how many people have been to Plymouth; there’s a great picture from the sixties where the Beatles are lying on the grass looking out to sea
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It’s interesting living in a place that has almost no (conventional) history yet – a combination of bland and expectancy! Lovely to see yours, Dallas. 🙂
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As I’m dead nosey and love to see where you all live; thought I better post some from my corner of the world
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A perennial favourite – your corner of the world. It was great to see. 🙂
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I was in your town in 2010!!! I’m coming back…you live in a beautiful place. 🙂
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“Never”! As my welsh sisters would say! Were you on holiday and where did you visit?
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I was on holiday – just one week – before I started blogging. The first time I had ever been in England and I fell in love with everything about it, especial teatime!!! 🙂
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What a lovely place to call home! I love the photos with the lighthouse and ferris wheel. In my neck of the woods, I’m working (mainly looking busy) at a blues show tonight, which is always fun with loads of fabulous music.
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Loved your pics from backstage at the Country Music Awards far more interesting than what I’m doing! My girls are still waiting for your “Nashville” photoblog although if you have a Skinny Pirate in each venue you may well have the mother of all hangovers
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You know, that’s just the way that I need to do it! A Skinny Pirate at each venue will make for the most exciting post of all time. Stand by while I negotiate this with my liver…
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All your pictures are exactly what I envision of England–cloudy, very green, and quaint. I live along the water too but the Long Island Sound does not look as exotic as this!
Oh and yes the Pilgrims–Every American child knows the story of the pilgrims and the legend of the First Thanksgiving (which is in a few weeks by the way). I’ve been to the Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts, the settlement where the first Pilgrims landed and made their home after their journey across the Atlantic. Needless to say it is very cheesy with actors dressed in Pilgrim clothes but wonderful for children who want to learn about history.
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Every summer we have a schooner anchored on the Barbican (the Elizabethan quarter and venue for the original fish market) with Captain Jack Sparrow at the helm
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Wow! Sounds worth a visit. :-). … My little town of 40,000+ just north of Toronto is 150 years old this year. … That’s all, folks 😉
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Your little town sounds interesting, Dorothy; I bet it has its own quaint charm
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boxes, boxes, boxes…
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I feel your pain!
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Of course, I too enjoy any information about Arthur Conan Doyle… but even so, it was the mention of gin that brought color to my cheeks.
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Everytime I visit Princetown the old hotel he stayed in (which is now a visitors centre) it conjures up the story for me but sadly I’m not a fan of gin
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