Firefighters stop blaze spreading to home of Sir Francis Drake's wife
A 15TH century cottage thought to be the childhood home of Sir Francis Drake's wife escaped damage when an adjacent building suffered a chimney fire.
Emergency crews were called to Culvert Road in Saltash at about 6pm yesterday where they extinguished a chimney fire in a house which shares a flume with the Tudor cottage.
The occupied house suffered smoke damage but there were no reports of any injuries and crews were able to extinguish the blaze within an hour.
There was a strong smell of smoke inside the old cottage, which is thought to have once been the home of Mary Newman, Sir Francis Drake's wife, but no damage was caused.
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Sarah Page, chairman of the Tamar Protection Society, which maintains the cottage, said: "There is no damage to the cottage whatsoever.
"We would like to thank the fire brigade who were very quick and very thorough."
5 Comments
by Kudov
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 1:11PM
“I bet she was relieved, I hope shes ok.”
by CornishPirate
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 10:25AM
“You must mean Culver Road...?”
by jabbathebutt
Monday, February 11 2013, 10:52PM
“It seems everything about Plymouth always has the "believed to be " rather than the actual. The mayflower steps "believed to be " . The titanic "believed to be " passing by . Argyle "believed to be " a top rate football team .”
by newjanner
Monday, February 11 2013, 9:04PM
“Good job the firemen werent playing bowls”
by jennyplym
Monday, February 11 2013, 8:15PM
“It was at 5pm as I was walking my dog at 5pm by the Tamar Bridge on the grass bank and noticed smoke belching out from the cottage on the other side of the river and there were already Fire Appliances in attendence. The smoke was very intense and drifting up onto the Tamar Bridge.”