Ye Olde Plymouth Quiz #4

[Mark Pedlar]

17

Top end of Union Street near roundabout

 

[Mark Pedlar]

28

The building in the background is "Roundabout" so Charles Street?

 

[signalspast]

No. 4 is quite a historic picture, presumably at Roborough Airport in the 1920s where the plane, the second De Havilland DH50 to be built is seen about to fly its route back to Croyden for Imperial Airways. It was later fitted with floats and a bigger fuel tank in preparation for a flight by Sir Alan Cobham to Australia and back (and also South Africa) to show that commercial flights to the colonies were possible.

Was robrough open in the 1920s I was thinking more yelverton airfield

 

[The Lyndhurst Sage]

6. is 867 Wolseley Road, Saltash Passage.

 

[Bernie Bernbaum]

18 is the temporary bus station after the war. Roughly at the junction between Union Street and Western Approach. Millbay station is top left.
26 Embankment Road or possibly Exeter Street?
16 Complete guess Saltash Road or St Levans Road?

 

[Whitleigh 1952 Green]

No 6 At a guess, the end wall of the former Wiltun Hotel in West Hoe, where a path now runs down beside it to a sea wall with model ships on it.
No 28 Tavistock Road in the '50s looking up to Queen Anne Terrace.

No 6 Sorry, just seen Lyndhurst Sage. He sounds more certain than I am!

 

[Barrie Davis]

No. 4 is quite a historic picture, presumably at Roborough Airport in the 1920s where the plane, the second De Havilland DH50 to be built is seen about to fly its route back to Croyden for Imperial Airways. It was later fitted with floats and a bigger fuel tank in preparation for a flight by Sir Alan Cobham to Australia and back (and also South Africa) to show that commercial flights to the colonies were possible.

Was robrough open in the 1920s I was thinking more yelverton airfield

You may be right but it may also be Chelson Meadow. Imperial Airways flew from Croyden to Chelson as a regular mail service from 27 April 1923. This led the Council to believe that the service should be improved and they looked for a suitable alternative airport site elsewhere. Roborough opened in 1925. This picture could not be before July 1923, because of the manufacturing and registration dates of the plane, and various crashes, rebuilds, conversions and round the world adventures suggest that it would not be after 1926 so the picture may well be commemorating the first flight from Chelson or Roborough.

 

[signalspast]

Thanks for interesting information. Didnt onownwhen robrough opened and one nothing about Chelsea hence ky thinking about yeleverton

 

[The Lyndhurst Sage]

No 6 At a guess, the end wall of the former Wiltun Hotel in West Hoe, where a path now runs down beside it to a sea wall with model ships on it.
No 28 Tavistock Road in the '50s looking up to Queen Anne Terrace.

No 6 Sorry, just seen Lyndhurst Sage. He sounds more certain than I am!

Funnily enough my first thought was the Wiltun but then I realised the building wasn't grand enough and the background not open enough. So I went up river

 

[The Lyndhurst Sage]

No.17 looks an awful lot like the Genting casino in Union Street which I had to visit regularly when I worked for the Gambling Commission. Put off that view as there seems to be an incline in the street which there isn't in that part of Union Street.

Surely this was the right answer later backed up by Bernie Bernbaum? :think:

 

[Eddie]

Here's a quiz question within a quiz:

Where does 'Ye' come from in the title to this thread?

 

[Ponty]

15. The Smiths Crisp Factory off Northolt Avenue Ernesettle which later became part of Rank Radio International, being used as the coil winding and impreg facility, I was a young electrician who was involved in adapting the factory after it was degreased.

My Mum used to work in the crisp factory and we used to have warm crisps on the journey home from picking her up. What a treat in those days when everything was a luxury.

 

[justanotherfan]

23. Looking toward George Street.

 

[IJN]

1
2 Plymstock Broadway
3 Gydinia Way
4 Yelverton Airfield
5
6
7 Mutton Cove
8 St Levans Road
9 Mutley Plain
10 Old Town Street
11 North Road West
12 New George Street
13 Peverell
14 Millbridge Toll House
15 Smith Crisps Ernesettle
16
17 Very top end of Union Street roughly where Sparrows was.
18 Jct Union Street/Western Approach
19 Top of Western Approach
20 The Octagon
21 Spooners Food Hall
22 Old Town Street
23
24 Plymouth Pier (Hoe)
25 Palace Theatre
26 Embankment Road towards the Plympton/Plymstock spilt.
27 St Judes/Mt Gould
28
29 North Quay
30 Frankfort Gate

 

[Bernie Bernbaum]

Here's a quiz question within a quiz:

Where does 'Ye' come from in the title to this thread?

Fake old English apparently.