Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe Size:M: 50 x 50cm Inscribed: 'BENIAMIN AB RVMFORD S

Inscribed: 'BENIAMIN AB RVMFORD S

Two illustrations showing the frame curvature with chocks and the method of tying timber planks to the keel at the garboard strake

Nosegay and memo book seller

Boomtown Rats in concert at the Odeon

Lord Mayor 1871

Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe Size:M: 50 x 50cm Inscribed: 'BENIAMIN AB RVMFORD SSir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, 1588 (c1900). The famous game of bowls supposedly played by Sir Francis Drake whilst awaiting the arrival of the Spanish Armada. The story, probably apocryphal, goes that when Drake was informed that the Armada had been sighted, rather than putting to sea immediately, he decided that he had time to 'finish the game and beat the Spaniards too'. From Peeps into the Past by Trelleek, published c1900.