Urban day out

[bunn]

We went to the big city today.  Specifically, we went to the Royal William Yard, which years ago when I used to work at that end of Plymouth was a huge empty stone monstrosity full of sad empty windows.   It was built in the early nineteenth century as a Royal Navy victualling yard, in the days when Plymouth had a truly enormous quantity of Royal

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[king_pellinor]

I think the 1835 winner of "Country most likely to invade Britain" was France, which was coming back to the premier league after a few years of lacklustre performances.

[wellinghall]

I agree with Pellinor on this.

[bunn]

Maybe the need to defend the artisan cheeses has a longer history than I'd guessed...

[puddleshark]

The phrase "River Cottage Gun Emplacement" made my morning. Thank you.

I'm so glad the victualling yard survived the bombs and the town planners - what a fabulous building.