Facades

These splendid houses face onto the Promenade on Plymouth Hoe and look out across Plymouth Sound..

The building of this terrace started around 1836. 

They miraculously survived World War Two without major damage from the heavy bombing which Plymouth suffered in the heavy air raids between 1940 to 1944.

During the Blitz the city's two main shopping centres and nearly every civic building were destroyed, 

along with 26 schools, eight cinemas and 41 churches. 

In total, 3,754 houses were destroyed with a further 18,398 seriously damaged ,

so the survival of this terrace is all the more surprising.

During this period 1,172 civilians were killed and 4,448 were injured 

and this memorial to them is no more than 100 metres from the buildings featured above.