title Uni: A Neath Road Summer, St. Jude's, Plymouth - 18th August 1987 intro 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. scan-120426-0001 Ed reads the newspaper on the beach scan-120426-0002 The back alley of Neath Road scan-120426-0008 Sunrise and a pylon, looking over Embankment Road scan-120426-0003 Another view of the River Plym scan-120426-0009 A climbing frame in the sunrise scan-120110-0036 Another sunrise over Embankment Road scan-120426-0006 Roland and Ed scan-120426-0009a Roland, Ed and Barbara scan-120426-0010 Sunrise over the River Plym scan-120426-0011 Barbara gives Christmas the kitten a scratch on the head scan-120426-0012 A random parakeet is spotted somewhere p13 Barbara intruduces the kitten to the rabbit scan-120110-0037 Christmas the kitten scan20200629_057 Barbara in the garden scan20200629_083_min Barbara with Christmas the kitten scan20200629_058 Ed gives Friday the rabbit a brush scan20200629_033 Friday and Barbara scan20200629_056 Ed and Barbara hang out scan20200629_084_min Barbara plays with the kitten scan20200629_082_min Christmas the kitten scan-120110-0039 Assorted bathers near Tinside Lido scan-120110-0047 Mountbatten Point at The Sound scan-120110-0048 Dark red house on the corner of Lockyer Street and the Esplanade