Graveyard Beauty - Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, Devon, UK. Part 1
Ford Park Cemetery is a 34.5-acre cemetery in central Plymouth, England, established by the Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport Cemetery Company in 1846 and opened in 1848.
It is estimated that approximately a quarter of a million people are buried within its grounds.
198 war graves of the Second World War (including an unidentified airman) are scattered throughout the site, Plus civilian victims of the Plymouth blitz bombing during WW2.
I spent the afternoon looking around and filming. I think I got around about a quarter of the cemetery.
It has some absolutely stunning Victorian memorials.
The Last German E-Boat
S-130 is the very last of Germany's sleek S-Boats, the fast motor torpedo boats known to the British as E-boats, that ravaged shipping around the shores of the UK. Now being restored in Britain, this boat is a rare wartime survivor with an equally fascinating postwar story to match.
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Photo credits: British Power Boat Trust, Exercise Tiger Memorial, Barry Lewis, Jim Linwood.
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake, vice admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580.
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Southampton | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:22 1 History
00:01:31 1.1 Early Southampton
00:03:01 1.2 11th–13th century
00:04:17 1.3 14th century
00:06:48 1.4 15th century
00:08:45 1.5 16th and 17th centuries
00:09:28 1.6 18th century
00:10:19 1.7 19th century
00:12:00 1.8 20th century
00:15:49 1.9 21st century
00:17:03 2 Governance
00:22:47 3 Geography
00:25:56 3.1 Areas and suburbs
00:27:35 3.2 Climate
00:28:14 3.3 Energy
00:29:10 4 Demographics
00:31:53 5 Economy
00:39:43 6 Culture, media and sport
00:39:54 6.1 Culture
00:43:20 6.1.1 Music
00:46:00 6.2 Media
00:48:51 6.3 Sport
00:54:45 7 Emergency services
00:56:13 8 Crime
00:58:03 9 Education
01:01:37 10 Transport
01:01:47 10.1 Road
01:02:32 10.2 Rail
01:04:27 10.3 Air
01:05:06 10.4 Cruise shipping
01:07:06 10.5 Ferry
01:08:40 10.6 Bus
01:10:50 10.7 Tram
01:11:16 10.8 Cycling
01:11:44 11 Notable people
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Southampton ( (listen)) is a city in Hampshire, England, and the largest in South East England, 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Portsmouth. A major port, and close to the New Forest, it lies at the northernmost point of Southampton Water, at the confluence of the River Test and Itchen, with the River Hamble joining to the south. The unitary authority had a population of 253,651 at the 2011 census. A resident of Southampton is called a Sotonian.Significant employers in the city include Southampton City Council, the University of Southampton, Solent University, Southampton Airport, Ordnance Survey, BBC South, the NHS, Associated British Ports (ABP) and Carnival UK. Southampton is noted for its association with the RMS Titanic, the Spitfire, as one of the departure points for D-Day, and more recently as the home port of some of the largest cruise ships in the world. Southampton also has a large shopping centre and retail park, Westquay.