Ye Olde Plymouth Quiz #4

[The Lyndhurst Sage]

Grand Parade at Rusty Anchor is 3 storeys high and has a square parapet, not a gable end. If you use Google go Wolseley Road in Saltash Passage. Opposite Little Ash Gardens is the Tamar River Sailing Club and just south there is a pair of large semi-detached houses. The northern gable end is the same size and shape, but now painted cream. The steps have been blocked in but still visible.

Obviously the advert has gone. When I joined the City planning department in 1972 they had a policy of discontinuance action against advertising hoardings around the city and I would bet that was why this one was removed. Steve Dean's brother, Roger, would confirm this. That's why Plymouth has relatively few advert hoardings left compared to other cities.

 

[ping g5]

Grand Parade at Rusty Anchor is 3 storeys high and has a square parapet, not a gable end. If you use Google go Wolseley Road in Saltash Passage. Opposite Little Ash Gardens is the Tamar River Sailing Club and just south there is a pair of large semi-detached houses. The northern gable end is the same size and shape, but now painted cream. The steps have been blocked in but still visible.

Obviously the advert has gone. When I joined the City planning department in 1972 they had a policy of discontinuance action against advertising hoardings around the city and I would bet that was why this one was removed. Steve Dean's brother, Roger, would confirm this. That's why Plymouth has relatively few advert hoardings left compared to other cities.

Ah yes.... That'll be it. Thanks.

 

[IJN]

1 Tin Pan Alley
2 Plymstock Broadway
3 Gydinia Way
4 Yelverton Airfield
5
6 Wolseley Road Saltash Passage.
7 Mutton Cove
8 St Levans Road
9 Mutley Plain
10 Old Town Street
11 North Road West
12 New George Street
13 Hooe
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 George S
24 Plymouth Pier (Hoe)
25 Palace Theatre
26 Embankment Road towards the Plympton/Plymstock spilt.
27 St Judes/Mt Gould
28 Coburg Street
29 North Quay
30 Frankfort Gate

 

[Pogleswoody]

Is 5 Embankment Road shops??
I have no evidence for this guess but ... hey ho!!!

 

[IJN]

As I say, this is the last of the quizzes.

But these four photos exemplify some of the wonderful photos that have caught the social history of our fine City.

See if you can guess where they are.

 

[The Lyndhurst Sage]

Think the second one is looking down Pin Lane to Southside Street where the RNLI shop now is. The Maritime is just out of view to the right of that shop.

 

[Green Painter]

23. Moons pianos was in George St near the old chapel coop. I'm guessing many of the buildings in the foreground no longer exist but my hunch would be its outside Raglan barracks looking south west.

 

[Steve Dean]

1 Tin Pan Alley
2 Plymstock Broadway
3 Gydinia Way
4 Yelverton Airfield
5
6 Wolseley Road Saltash Passage.
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 Coburg Street
29 North Quay
30 Frankfort Gate

Ian, I think we've agreed that 13 is Hooe, and there seems to be a strong view that 4 is Chelson Meadow. Could you say which of these you are very confident about, i.e. came from your photo sources? For instance, #1 doesn't feel right, or was there a pre-war Tin Pan Alley?

Much appreciated! :clap:

 

[storming]

23 George Street - Others already got this one.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/de/d9/01 ... a024ef.jpg

 

[storming]

Could 5 be Cumberland Street?

 

[IJN]

1 Tin Pan Alley
2 Plymstock Broadway
3 Gydinia Way
4 Yelverton Airfield
5
6 Wolseley Road Saltash Passage.
7 Mutton Cove
8 St Levans Road
9 Mutley Plain
10 Old Town Street
11 North Road West
12 New George Street
13 Hooe
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 George Street
24 Plymouth Pier (Hoe)
25 Palace Theatre
26 Embankment Road towards the Plympton/Plymstock spilt.
27 St Judes/Mt Gould
28 Coburg Street
29 North Quay
30 Frankfort Gate

Ian, I think we've agreed that 13 is Hooe, and there seems to be a strong view that 4 is Chelson Meadow. Could you say which of these you are very confident about, i.e. came from your photo sources? For instance, #1 doesn't feel right, or was there a pre-war Tin Pan Alley?

Much appreciated! :clap:

My mistake re Hooe Steve, it's so hard to do this keep up thing. :facepalm:

Tin Pan Alley is what I've got against 1, but I'm very happy to be proved wrong.

As for five, I'm sure it was Devonport or Embankment Road, but I lost my tag to it.

I see there's no takers on 3 of the 4 new ones.

The bottom two are truly incredible photos in my opinion, both well known to all of us as well.

 

[Steve Dean]

16: King Street by any chance?

 

[Mark Pedlar]

16: King Street by any chance?

Dont know about 16 but isnt that a reflection of the King Street Methodist Church in the window of 5?

 

[Pogleswoody]

16: King Street by any chance?

Dont know about 16 but isnt that a reflection of the King Street Methodist Church in the window of 5?

Well I thought that was the church on the corner of the park in Embankment Road, it is an angled reflection showing the building on the Astor Park corner of the roundabout. The reflection in the shops further up is of the large terraced properties opposite Embankment Road shops (now mostly HMO/bedsit flats?) :think:

 

[George Willis]

I think the photo of the old house with a family in the door is one of the farm houses that were in what we now know as Central Park. I've seen something similar in one of the Library collections of old Plymouth photos.