Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 91
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before, for I was a regular object of curiosity to them all. We had a look over the old fashioned church where tablets are erected to Drakes descendants & then went on to the old Abbey where all the monks are living & whom John Bull wrote so strongly about some little time back accused them of being spies etc. Old Drake also had a lot to do with the old Abbey, wherever you go in Devon it is full of little stories & remembrances of this great old 16th Century sailor, his very name is worshipped in Devonshire & to those people he is the greatest man that ever lived, in fact he is almost their God, they could certainly have a far worse hero, for even in my opinion he is the greatest & best of all Englands long list of heros.
After coming back to Plymouth we went & had dinner at the "Swiss Café", & then down to the Hippodrome to see the performance & then