title A Tamar River Trip, Plymouth, Devon - 30th May 2016 intro 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. imgp3741 The new Drake Circus imgp3742 The now-covered top end of New George Street imgp3743 Steel and Glass, and the old Money Centre imgp3744 New George Street imgp3745 More New George Street imgp3746 Fred does a roundabout ride imgp3747 Harry has a go on a roundabout imgp3749 Harry in a mini lorry imgp3751 The old Dingles/House of Fraser imgp3752 Royal Parade, towards Derry's Cross imgp3753 Demolition or renovation? The former Civic Centre imgp3755 The stark 1962 concrete of the Civic Centre imgp3756 The Civic Centre: 1960s concrete imgp3759 Fred and Harry on the HMS Ark Royal anchor imgp3760 Isobel and Harry near the Mayflower Hotel imgp3761 Some knobwit has torched a dustbin imgp3762 The Navy Memorial imgp3764 Fred walks around the memorial imgp3765 Harry gets a bit nervous in Smeaton's Tower imgp3766 Biblical carving in Smeaton's Tower imgp3767 The view from the top of the lighthouse imgp3768 The stripey Tinside Lido and Plymouth Sound imgp3772 West Hoe imgp3773 The thing that looked like a church has gone imgp3776 Plymouth Hoe imgp3785 Looking towards Madeira Road and Plymstock imgp3795 The gang at the base of Smeaton's Tower imgp3800 Compulsory cliché photo of Smeaton's Tower imgp3801 East Hoe and the Citadel imgp3803 The gang eat ice cream imgp3804 The queues have died down at the ice cream van imgp3806 A fishing boat heads out to sea imgp3808 Harry and Isobel look out to sea imgp3810 The almost-tropical waters of the Sound imgp3811 The boys climb all over a cannon imgp3812 Fred pokes at a cannon imgp3813 Harry climbs on too imgp3815 Southside Street in the Barbican imgp3816 The boys in Harbourside Fish and Chips imgp3818 It's heaving in Harbourside Fish and Chip Shop imgp3821 We eat our chips on the Mayflower pier imgp3823 Mayflower Pier imgp3824 The Barbican from Mayflower Pier imgp3825 Where the fishing boats and fish market used to be imgp3826 The new Mayflower Museum imgp3827 A couple of research vessels are docked imgp3829 The Barbican Landing Stage imgp3831 Fred on the landing stage imgp3832 Isobel's hair is blown in the wind imgp3834 Waiting for the off imgp3836 The Hoe, as seen from The Sound imgp3838 A derelict swimming construction imgp3839 Plymouth Hoe imgp3841 Tinside Lido imgp3842 The "Quality Hotel" looks derelict imgp3843 The Belvedere imgp3845 Former wartime gun emplacements imgp3846 Devonport dockyard imgp3847 An old boatshed down at Devonport imgp3853 D34 HMS Diamond, a Type-45 Daring-class destroyer imgp3860 F235, HMS Monmouth, steams out to the Sound imgp3864 The massive ship sheds at Devonport imgp3866 There's a ship in for servicing imgp3871 Type 23's F82 HMS Somerset and F79 HMS Portland imgp3874 HMS Somerset at Devonport imgp3877 L12 HMS Ocean - the Royal Navy's biggest ship imgp3880 Another view of L12 HMS Ocean imgp3885 The Edgecumb Arms, over in Cornwall imgp3887 On the tour boat on the Sound imgp3888 The West Vanguard navigation buoy imgp3890 Harry looks up and scowls imgp3892 The other passengers on the boat imgp3893 Fred comes up topside imgp3912 Back at Cattewater imgp3913 We leave the tour boat imgp3914 Back on dry land imgp3917 The Barbican and its bunting imgp3918 A derelict building imgp3919 Lenkiewicz's original mural has gone imgp3920 Isobel and Gabes wander up Buckwell Street imgp3921 Fred takes a break imgp3922 A glimpse of the Civic Centre from Buckwell Street imgp3923 The Post Office on Exeter Street imgp3924 Lloyds Bank on Royal Parade imgp3925 Royal Parade is almost empty imgp3926 Old Town Street imgp3928 The boys on Old Town Street imgp3929 Back at the new Drake Circus imgp3930 A view over the car park