The End of the First Year: Cromwell Street and others - 1986

After having left Beaumont Street (Nosher's first digs) on account of an unrequited infatuation, Nosher found himself at the other end of Plymouth in St. Judes on Cromwell Street. The house had just been done up with a couple of flats which initially Nosher and Andy "Dobbs" Dobie lived in, to be joined by Rik later. It was run by a squaddie out of REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), based up the road near Derriford. This set also features some photos of a Catalina PBY Flying Boat, which had flown into Plymouth to celebrate the anniversay of the Curtiss NC-4 transatlantic flight in 1917 (I'm not sure what the 75 signifies in that case...). From the site: The NC flight plan called for a first leg of 864 km (540 mi) from the U.S. Naval Air Station at Rockaway Beach, New York, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then 736 km (460 mi) to Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland. The third, long leg of the flight, from Newfoundland to the Azores, was 2,080 km (1,300 mi). The fourth leg, 1,280 km (800 mi) to Lisbon, and the last, 1,240 km (775 mi) to Plymouth, England, brought the total distance to 6,200 km (3,875 mi).

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John Stuart
 
Another night, another ball... ahh, such was the social whirl
 
More stick-action in the SU
 
 
Mark, landlord of Cromwell Street (the house that me, Dobbs and Rik lived in, not the whole street), Dobbs and Dave Lock (so this might be end of the first year :-)
 
 
 
 
Dave Archer, chair of Ents committee (or something) in the SU office
 
A mass strip-a-thon breaks out in the SU main bar
 
 
Dartmoor ponies
 
The Churchouse Inn, Holne on Dartmoor
 
Devonport Dockyard
 
The Barbican - Sutton Harbour, taken from the Mayflower Steps
 
Angela Crann
 
A busker busks on the slipway near to the yacht club
 
No page of photos from this period is complete without one of these - the Catalina PBY flying boat
 
The Catalina PBY floats about
 
Dignitaries and the Royal Marines Band gather on the Mayflower Steps to receive the pilot and crew of the Catalina PBY after it landed in Plymouth Sound
 
 
The mayoral Roller
 
The assembled yachts in Sutton Harbour prior to the Carlsberg single-handed transatlantice race, 1987
 
Looking towards Cattewater over the Citadel
 
A fishing boat in the Barbican
 
Round for dinner at Angela and co's place in St Judes
 
In the Cromwell Street kitchen - Nosher does a dinner party...
 
...so Dobbs sticks a Grisini breadstick up his nose
 
Angela Crann washes up in the Cromwell Street kitchen, after a Nosher dinner party
 
Alley Cat. A view from my bedroom in Cromwell Road
 
My bedroom, complete with VIC-20, Genesis and Phil Collins posters
 
Bray-feature hangs out in Nosher's bedroom at Cromwell Street
 
   

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