Not Just A Wall

Up early and out at the same time as Mrs S, she to work me to Glyn Valley Crematorium for the funeral service of a former Navy colleague and friend Nick.
Having decided not to attend the wake I headed back to Perranporth on the north coast to visit 91 year old Joy, ex WRNS and widow of Pip, ex RN. Joy is now in residential care but looks forward to the occasional visit.
Neither the funeral or visit are photo opportunities so todays is of a wall with a tower but not any wall, this wall surrounded a huge swathe of the Stonehouse area of Plymouth in my early RN days, I remember it well.
Stonehouse Naval Hospital was built between 1758 and 1765 and it’s design was influential in its time, its pattern of detached wards (arranged so as to maximise ventilation and minimise spread of infection) foreshadowed the 'pavilion' style of hospital building which was popularised by Florence Nightingale a century later.
The site for the hospital was formerly known as the mill fields (after the nearby tide mills on Stonehouse Creek). The hospital closed in 1995 and is now a gated residential complex called The Millfields.
The site contains over 20 listed buildings and structures.
Monday evening involved preparing for tomorrow nights RNA meeting and finishing my book.