Lamb Phall
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Now the demolition squad has moved in looks like the place won't be around much longer.
Looks to have been popular with urban explorers too in the last couple days
First built in 1952 as a Naafi building, opend on Friday 18th July 1952 by HRH the Princess Margaret on her first official visit to the City.
The building was designed by Mr Ernest Joseph and cost £400,000 to construct.
It had a tavern, dance hall, restaurant and kitchen on the ground floor; reading room, games room, lounge and seven bedrooms for members of the Women's Royal Naval Service on the first floor; and forty-two double rooms on the second floor for male service personnel.
Its frontage to Notte Street measured 250 feet and that in Armada Way was 180 feet in length. In 1966 £11,000 was spent on updating the premises in an effort to stave off heavy financial losses but these continued as servicemen drifted away from such Clubs to accommodation within the Naval Barracks. What had by now become known as the Plymouth Hoe Services Club closed on Saturday September 27th 1969.
The NAAFI building modelled loosely on Norwich city Hall, later on it was occupied by the School of Architecture and closed in 2007 and has been empty since.
Most of the rooms are identical, the amount of bathrooms was crazy and the seagulls on the roof vicious.
Looks to have been popular with urban explorers too in the last couple days
First built in 1952 as a Naafi building, opend on Friday 18th July 1952 by HRH the Princess Margaret on her first official visit to the City.
The building was designed by Mr Ernest Joseph and cost £400,000 to construct.
It had a tavern, dance hall, restaurant and kitchen on the ground floor; reading room, games room, lounge and seven bedrooms for members of the Women's Royal Naval Service on the first floor; and forty-two double rooms on the second floor for male service personnel.
Its frontage to Notte Street measured 250 feet and that in Armada Way was 180 feet in length. In 1966 £11,000 was spent on updating the premises in an effort to stave off heavy financial losses but these continued as servicemen drifted away from such Clubs to accommodation within the Naval Barracks. What had by now become known as the Plymouth Hoe Services Club closed on Saturday September 27th 1969.
The NAAFI building modelled loosely on Norwich city Hall, later on it was occupied by the School of Architecture and closed in 2007 and has been empty since.
Most of the rooms are identical, the amount of bathrooms was crazy and the seagulls on the roof vicious.
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