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From: Brian Randell <>
Subject: Re: Mount Edgecombe
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:03:46 +0000
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Hi David:

>Hello Terry I have a couple of books with old Plymouth photos in, "
>Plymouth and Plymothians Photographs and Memories " including the boys band
>of the Training Ship Mt Edgcumbe and refs to other training ships the
>Defiance and Lion. Captain Harkcom of The Mt Edgcumbe was an enthusaistic
>oarsman and his boys participated in rowing races above Saltash against the
>other training establishments. Newland House on the Devon bank was used as
>the ships hospital. The cries of boys strapped to a grid for birching
>disturbed the residents of Saltash apparently. I think these photos were
>taken around 1900. Hope this is of some help David
>from Harpenden Herts UK Researching HOLLAND WESTAWAY SMITH DENT BARKER
>MUMFORD

I'm not sure whether one of the books you are referring to is
"Plymouth & Plymouthians" by Andrew Cluer & Ron Winram. You might
not be aware that this has been indexed - the index is available via
the GENUKI/Devon page for Plymouth.

However, if either - or both - of your books are not among those that
have already been indexed for GENUKI/Devon, I do hope you'll consider
preparing indexes to them.

You'll find details of the Devon Book Indexing Project at:

http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/indexingproject.html


cheers

Brian Randell
--
Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU, UK
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FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/

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