Found It

Despite the late night/early morning I had promised Mrs S we would be up and out for the craft fair at Princess Pavilion and so after a hasty breakfast off we went, all four of us.

Windy doesn’t begin to describe the day, at some point on a windless sunny day I’m going to re-roof the shed, the half I didn’t do last time!

Lots of great stuff to look at, some very talented people running their own businesses, very much like Sam with her art, we bought some stuff, not much.
Home, changed and settled in front of the TV for some rugby, first up Scotland v France, followed Wales v England finishing with Argentina v South Africa.

Whilst walking Paddy I found the memorial I had been asked to look for and once found I did a little research.

So Sir Bradford Leslie KCIE (1831-1926) is not buried in Falmouth but is commemorated with a memorial by his late granddaughter.

Sir Bradford was an English civil engineer who specialised in bridges and was a pupil of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His most notable achievement was the 1887 Jubilee Bridge over the Hooghly River between Naihati and Bandel in West Bengal, India.
While in India Leslie lost his wife, three daughters and a son-in-law all within three years and after repeated attacks of malaria he returned home to England with two orphan granddaughters in 1887.
The ship carrying them, the Tasmania, was wrecked off Corsica and while carrying one of his granddaughters to safety he fell and injured his knee, it was to trouble him for the rest of his life.


He died at his London home on 21 March 1926 aged 95.