Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe war memorial Chapels in Holborn

Chapels in Holborn

A bird's-eye view of St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark

Park drove this car in the 1922 Isle of Mann TT race

1940 BSA motorbike

Also pictured is Jim Simpson

Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe war memorial Chapels in HolbornSir 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.