Day Out With Brenda #2

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On Day 2 of Brenda's visit we went to Buckland Abbey ... where Sir Francis Drake lived for a time.  Prior to Henry VIII it had been a monastic abbey.






Medieval barn

In front of a cider press








Celebrating the 400th anniversary of The Armada







Love this settle





Sea Chest

Great Hall, finished 1576



In the Chapel


Gardens







Self-Portrait ... Rembrandt van Rijn ... 1635 (1)

Elizabeth Sydenham, Lady Drake ... 1562 - 1598

Pocket Globe, 1800

Eight sixpenses, dated 1561 - 1583

14th Century Antiphonal ... Canticles for Christmas

Elizabethan Armour

Pamphlet celebrating The Armada, published Sept 1588

14th Century