Today there was sun and blue skies. Pity I had a pile of work that needed to be done but I still couldn't resist a wander around the Barbican. It is the place where Sir Francis Drake used to hang and from whence he sailed, where the Pilgrim Fathers set off for America on the Mayflower and apparently where "Britons danced in defiance of Hitler's Luftwaffe".
All of these are marked by monuments - a nice of one Franny in his best bloomers (obviously off to play hockey or something).
Some steps and a frame and a zillion plaques for the Mayflower and themed ice cream shops (no doubt for all them American tourists).
And various memorials to the fallen in many wars. Hidden away though I did notice a couple of plaques commemorating the Charlotte and Friendship's departure in the first fleet to Australia and also one for Cornish farmers who made SA what it is today (apparently). On the Charlotte was one convict named John Small who we trace back through Elise Gallard's family (Elsie married William Lathey Way).
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