Back to Brixham, Back in Time

This was our third visit to Brixham. (See June 8 and June 26, 2025) This time I was on a mission. I wrote about the Chart Room on June 8; it's the wonderful coffee house that has all the cruise ship memorabilia.

I had made contact with Bob Higginson, the owner, who said he'd love to see the scrapbook my mother made after her cruise to Bermuda on the Lancastria in 1939. He greeted me warmly, looked at the scrapbook and said that it would help him with a presentation he was planning for the autumn about the great cruise ships of the past. I told him that I'd be back in the area in the autumn, so he's going to plan the presentation around my dates. How amazing! Because of that, I won't write more about it now, but will have a lot to say in September, I'm sure. Stay tuned.

Brixham has an abundance of wonderful street art and I tracked more of it down on this visit.

Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar:

Brixham sign:

Smuggler and Lantern:

Sea Fever:

Brixham's Heritage Fleet:

Captain Blackheart:

Vimutti Octopus:

The Leaning tower of Pisa:

Viking King:

After a visit to artist Lynne Peets' gallery, Colors of Brixham, where I managed to control myself a little (two of her pieces and one of her sister's) we stopped at Rockfish for lunch. I had the brill. It was brill. (If you were from Liverpool, you'd find that funny.)

On the way back to the car, we passed the most polite rubbish bin ever.