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Charles’ Hole in t’Wall Closes

by Mark Simpson
January 21, 2016December 22, 2020

The finest little bar on the Seven Seas is closing. After forty years of entertaining the sailors of the Royal Navy, Charles’ Hole in t’Wall in Gibraltar is shuttering its doors, bringing an end to a very special chapter in British maritime and marytime history. This report from GBC gives… Read More »Charles’ Hole in t’Wall Closes

Union Street Blues: Plymouth’s Last ‘Run Ashore’?

by Mark Simpson
January 7, 2007December 18, 2020

According to the Daily Telegraph’s front page, it’s ‘Sunset’ for the Senior Service: ‘Navy to cut its fleet by half’. The Navy that once ruled the waves, the global maritime force on which the sun never set, and gave the world some of the most romantic not to mention fetishistically ingenious uniforms ever… Read More »Union Street Blues: Plymouth’s Last ‘Run Ashore’?

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