Looking Back

Story of the missing bracelet

Friday, July 18, 2008

SOME years ago now, Mr Simms from Saltash found an identity bracelet in his back garden, and ever since he wondered what the story behind it was. To that end he has contacted Looking Back and wonders if anyone can help him reunite the item with its owner's family.

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Then and Now

Saturday, June 28, 2008

SO VERY familiar in its day and so very different now, here we are at the bottom of Old Town Street, with no hint of lasting reminders of the...

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The place

Saturday, June 28, 2008

ST JAMES PLACE ST JAMES PLACE, East and West, take their names from the erstwhile church of St James the Less, which formerly stood at the...

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The pub

Saturday, June 28, 2008

CATTLE MARKET INN IT STOOD on a site now swallowed up by the new Drake Circus shopping mall, just down from the point where the long-gone Park...

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Speedway king

CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: Ted with a Hornet Moth biplane at Roborough, in the Civil Air Guard; Ted McSweeney, leg trailing in the thirties; Ted, in his sports jacket, with England Speedway Captain Bill Kitchen and his brother Jack Kitchen (both in leathers); Doreen McSweeney (nee Knight) on piano with the Maxine and Her Rhythm Girls; Ted on his bike at Pennycross Stadium circa 1935

Saturday, June 28, 2008

FOLLOWING on from our Devonport Carnival pic the other week, I had an email from Ray McSweeney. He writes: “The man with the mask is my...

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Arts centre's rich canvas

CLOCKWISE. FROM TOP LEFT: Arts Centre Diary from 1957; Geoff Clarke's early Arts Centre programme cover; Beryl Cook's Strawberry Pickers; an Eighties art event in Looe Street; artist Patrick Heron at the Arts Centre

Saturday, June 28, 2008

THIS summer Plymouth Arts Centre is celebrating its 60th birthday, and in the process is looking forward to a rosy future and back over a...

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Bar Ha Da Ba

Sunday, June 22, 2008

HA DA BA SITTING right alongside Ride Cafe, Ha Da Ba (the name would appear to be an oblique reference to a hill in Egyptian, in deference to...

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Within the Arctic Circle

Sunday, June 22, 2008

LOFOTEN CLOSE LYING within the Arctic Circle, Lofoten is an archipelago – a group or chain of islands – just off the Norwegian...

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Mystery photo of Grandad's first job

WORK MATES: Photograph featuring a 17 year old Ernest Cawse at his first job

Sunday, June 22, 2008

THANKS to Roger Cawse for this 99-year-old gem. Roger has no idea who any of these people are, save for one – his grandfather, Ernest...

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Brother Freddie ran off with fair

MISSING: Above, Freddie Ryder in the Army at the age of 18 or 19; top, Whiteleggs' Fair passes through town; and left, Whitelegg's big wheel

Sunday, June 22, 2008

HALF a century ago, when Dorothy Ryder was just a little girl, her beloved elder brother Freddie ran away with Whitelegg's Fair – and...

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