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Final clash in Battle of the Bands competition

TOP SPOT: Last year's winners the Toxic Waste Monkeys

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

THE FINAL of this year's The Herald South West Under-18s Battle of the Bands on Saturday night promises to be a cracker.

Four amazing young bands will be waging a war of riffs in a bid to follow in the footsteps of last year's winners the Toxic Waste Monkeys.

The...

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PETER GREIG'S POP QUIZ

Friday, November 21, 2008

GOLD Radio Retro Chart For This Week In 1994 Each week Peter Greig from Gold Plymouth takes you back in time. Why don't you listen now on...

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The place

Friday, November 21, 2008

RAMILLIES AVENUE May 23 1706 witnessed an epic battle in the War of Spanish Succession. Fought on Dutch soil between the French and the Allied...

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The pub

Friday, November 21, 2008

CLARENCE INN Catherine Street Standing but a short distance off Fore Street, and just around the corner from the main Dockyard Gates, the...

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A Minney history of a city family

ABOVE: Tavistock Road minus the Minney's buildings, circa 1930BELOW LEFT: F Minney, builder 25 Tavistock Road (note the face at the upstairs window)BELOW MIDDLE: 1922: Minney's Grocery and Confectionery, 24 Tavistock RoadBELOW RIGHT: 1922: Minney's Museum Tea Rooms, 22 Tavistock Road

Friday, November 21, 2008

EDITH MINNEY'S father was a builder, and, one hundred years ago, he was operating from a three-storey property in Tavistock Road. Edith's...

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Then and Now

Friday, November 21, 2008

IT'S not quite possible to line these images up exactly but our rough guide is the eastern end of St Andrew's Church, visible, although by no...

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Magic of movies comes to the big screen

SILVER SCREEN: Now showing! February 1938, left; above, a splendid image of the erstwhile Public Hall, now Electric Cinema in the summer of 1936 with the latest Jimmy Cagney film heading the listing

Friday, November 21, 2008

ON November 9, 1881 an impressive new facility opened in Fore Street, Devonport; this was the new Public Hall/Theatre which was capable of...

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Stan's schooldays

WAY BACK WHEN: Left, Honicknowle Primary School, Spring, 1953; above, June 1957, Honicknowle pupils (Stan second from left overlooking the model, with his mum behind him, and mate Danny Cowan, next but one to Stan, also looking at the model; 'We went out around the estate and made measurements before building this model of Honicknowle with cardboard and paper. Dock Lane is bottom left, Butt Park over on the right and Warwick House in the far corner in front of Stan.

Friday, November 21, 2008

STAN GRIFFITHS will be 62 on December 4 and he doesn't care who knows it. Indeed, if there any people out there reading this who remember Stan...

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This week when?

Friday, November 21, 2008

'A MASSIVE scheme organized by Devon farmers to keep the foot and mouth epidemic out of the county was being put into operation this afternoon....

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In musical memory of patron St Cecilia

ANNIVERSARY: St Cecilia, the South West Chamber Choir and tenor Jonathan Ansel

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

SAINT Cecilia is usually acknowledged as the patron saint of music and musicians, and her feast day is on November 22 each year. Conductor...

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