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Brixham Scaffolding - the Structure Remains Strong!

Brixham: Final Scaffolding Report! (4.4.2026)

It is logical to assume that “71 Mount Pleasant Road” (second floor which we are renting) and “71a Mount Pleasant Road” (First Floor) was probably all the same building being referred to in the “Conveyance” document of 1920 – affixed to wall of the back bedroom. This was a substantial building of four (or five) floors (in the UK the 1st floor equates to the Ground Floor in the US – yes – we exported our culture but apparently not our counting) – excluding any basement. We think that once the (limestone) quarry was finished and used-up – the land was sold for housing. However, the quarry proper (which spread over some miles) was not officially closed until 1969 – although obviously not in this exact location – which must have finished earlier (the quarry is said to have existed for 300-years).

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Half-Penny from 1966

Brixham: Coins in the Wall! (2.4.2026)

Administrative matters aside – I notice the above “interior” wall looks as if it used to be an “external” wall – as it looks weather-beaten and worn. Furthermore, in the UK, builders often leave a coin featuring the year any renovations were carried-out as a form of “good luck”. Usually, we find these coins under floor-boards, carpets, and lino, etc. Sometimes they are lodged between wooden joints or under various structures. In this wall, the coins seem cemented on the outside of the wall. There is a 1966 half-penny, and a 1960 three-penny. When I was first at school in the early 1970s – these coins were still in use. The old half-penny would today possess the buying power of £5 – whilst the three-penny bit could buy about £30s worth of goods. This was before the UK joined the EEC (1.1.1973). Prior to this, a British pound was comprised of 240 pence – afterwards it was deliberately devalued to just “100” pence. What a disgrace all this was!

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