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Inspirational Books Blue Plaque The First Blue Plaque for the Plymouth area
Lynda Franklin
finally achieved her dream of honouring both her grandfather
and the
part that Glen Cottage played for so many people
during those long
years of the Second World War.
On 23rd March 2009 the blue plaque
was unveiled by Mr John Young,
the Chair of Newton & Noss Parish
Council, using an original WW2 flag.
The cost was borne by the
family, Newton & Noss PC
and the owners of Glen Cottage.
Hopefully
this plaque will be the first of many in the area.
Glen Cot in the 1940's
Glen Cottage in 2009
Blue plaque
unveiling ceremony, Glen Cottage 23rd March 2009
There are three of the original visitors books
left containing signatures, cartoons, poems and pictures of
hundreds
of service people from all over the world who visited Glen Cot .
If you think your relative could be amongst
those who wrote in Glen
Cottage’s visitors books,
then please go to Visitors Books or
contact Lynda with their name and
service
details and she will
check through all her information.
Press
to hear Lynda Franklin on Radio Devon 21st March 2009
The Official Unveiling of Plymouth’s First Heritage Plaque In Commemoration of Local Hero John Iliffe Poole By Lynda Franklin, Poole’s Granddaughter and author of his biography ‘Soft Words Butter No Parsnips’
Glen Cottage, Riverside Road,
Newton Ferrers, Devon
Monday 23rd March 2009
The commemorative
plaque was kindly part-funded by the
Newton Ferrers
Parish Council and its chair John Young performed
the unveiling ceremony
with Lynda, using an original WWII flag.
John ‘Tony’ Iliffe
Poole, with his wife Winifred, opened up his Newton Ferrers
cottage (‘Glen Cot’)
to over 70,000 servicemen during the Second World War.
Steward of the
Reading Room for 36 years, resident of Newton Ferrers from
1924-1960, Poole was
also the longest surviving laryngectomee in the world
until his death in
1979. His resilience and ongoing human-rights battle
rendered him quite
extraordinary.
