Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe war memorial With grey trousers and wearing

With grey trousers and wearing a red tie

1940 BSA motorbike

A bird's-eye view of St Thomas's Hospital in Southwark

and touching the muscles with a dissecting knife

The banks of the Viosne at Osny in grey weather

Sir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe war memorial With grey trousers and wearingSir Francis Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, 1588 (c1900). The famous game of bowls supposedly played by Sir Francis Drake whilst awaiting the arrival of the Spanish Armada. The story, probably apocryphal, goes that when Drake was informed that the Armada had been sighted, rather than putting to sea immediately, he decided that he had time to 'finish the game and beat the Spaniards too'. From Peeps into the Past by Trelleek, published c1900.