HMNB Devonport a Cornish Pasty and which was once the nickname for a sailor born and bred in Devonport. The traditional shout of "Oggy Oggy Oggy" was used to cheer on the Devonport team in the Navy's field gun competition. Devonport has been the site of a number of leaks of nuclear waste associated with the nuclear submarines based there. "Up until 1832 the Plymouth Royal Dockyard, was administered by a Commissioner of the Dockyard on behalf of the Navy Board in London included:" By An Order in Council dated 27 June 1832 the role of the Commissioner was replaced by an
An Item from the Late News An Item from the Late News An Item from the Late News (1982) is a novel by Australian author Thea Astley. The narrator here is arch, sarcastic, oblique Gabby, a painter who, in reaction against her boring upper-middle family, has been through marriage, affairs, bohemianism, and a breakdown..Now, back in her home-town of Allbut, a former mining center that's become a near-ghost town ""in our continental funkerama,"" Gabby is oddly entranced by a newcomer named Wafer--an overage hippie whose only goal is to find ""the perfect bomb shelter."" (His father was a WW II bomb fatality; he's obsessed with Hiroshima.)