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Interested in politics. when he spoke to children there his passion shone through. also down the road in leigh on sea there is a skate park and a mural has appeared there over the weekend. it is a picture of sir david with? two painted around it. the artist who did that has called it, why? that is the question many people are asking today. why him, why here? the police are introducing interviewing a 25 year old man in connection with this. their investigation is continuing. thank you for that. a collection of items from captain scott s ill fated final expedition to antarctica are to be auctioned in exeter tomorrow. they belonged to plymouth man francis davies, a royal navy carpenter and shipwright, who was part of the expedition team in 1910. john danks reports. it was described as the worst journey in the world. captain scott s doomed attempt to be the first to reach the south pole ended in failure and death. yet there is an enduring fascination with these early years ....
Of polar exploration. it is quite astounding to be standing as close to history as you can. these charts, used on the expedition, mark the progress of the terra nova as it negotiated the pack ice before finding a place for the team to land. it is absolutely unbelievable to think that scott stood over these charts while he was planning his routes and making decisions on the go. plymothian francis davies was a carpenter on the antarctic expedition. his collection of items kept within the family will be auctioned tomorrow. they don t come up that often and they do generate a tremendous amount of interest because they are from what people consider to be the golden age or the heroic age of exploration of scott and shackleton and such like. so they are very difficult to put a value on because they are unique one off pieces. like this receipt for the wood bought to build the expedition huts. davies apparently challenged ....
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