The Charles Church, Plymouth. The second oldest Parish Church in Plymouth, it was bombed and burned out during the Blitz on 21 and 22 March 1941. After the war it was not rebuilt but was left as a memorial the the destruction of Plymouth during the 2nd World War. It is situated in the centre of a busy roundabout near the Drakes Circus Shopping Complex. It was the Parish church used by many of my Billett and Avery ancestors in the 18th and 19th centuries
The Classic Boat Show which was held at Sutton Harbour in the Plymouth Barbican area 25th to 28th July
The Elsie Isabel a "Gentleman's Motor Launch" built in Plymouth in 1936. She was commandeered by the Royal Navy in 1944 as a survey vessel and took part in the ill fated D Day landing practise operation conducted on Slapton Sands in South Devon.
The Tom Tit built in Plymouth in 1948. She was a Dunkirk Little Ship and hes story is told in this link:
A World war one motor torpedo boat built in 1916 - CMB9
My Sister in law, Nina's Folkboat Bermudan Sloop built in Sussex in 1963
Nina dressing her boat with flags.
The Diver Training Vessel Hambledon taken from the Royal William Yard, Stonehouse
King Billy's Statue at Mutton Cove taken from the Cremyll Ferry on the way to Mount Edgecumbe Country Park
http://plymouthlocalhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/king-billys-staue-at-mutton-cove.html
The formal garden at the Orangery, Mt Edgecombe Country Park
A fountain in the Mt Edgcombe gardens
A Frigate entering the River Tamar at Mt Edgecumbe
The view from the terrace during the Mount Edgecombe Classic Car show and Fayre, 3 August 2014.
A Couple of MGs on display
A Bond Bug Similar to the car my brother owned in the early 1970s
The view over the twin villages of Kingsand and Cawsand taken from the top deck of the bus taking us back from Mt Edgcombe to Plymouth
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Driving on to the Torpoint ferry
Mum and I spent a day in Falmouth recently to find the homes of her grandfather and her great Uncle and Aunt
Falmouth Parish Church where my Mum's parents, Bob Phillips and Helen Billett, were married
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_King_Charles_the_Martyr,_Falmouth
The Main Street of Falmouth
32 Wodehouse Terrace the home of my Mum's grandparents, Dick and Alice Billett
The story goes that when he was about five or six my father sat on the steps of the house. In those days the Cutty Sark was moored in the river and Dick taught my father the rigging of a sailing ship
The Cutty Sark in Falmouth in the 1920s
63 Marlborough Street Falmouth, the home of My Mum's Great Uncle And Aunt, Captain Archie Billett and Lucy
My great grandfather Dick Billett in his later years was the innkeeper at the Summer Hill Hotel on Chapel Terrace. As far as we can make out this was the site of the hotel - now called the Jacobs Ladder.
The view of the Falmouth Docks from Chapel Terrace with Pendennis Castle on the skyline in the background
Arwennack House the 16the century home of the Killigrew family
http://www.falmouth.co.uk/discover-falmouth/history/arwenack-house
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