" Newspaper writers of the time used other nicknames for the club, including " Somersets " ( for owner Charles Somers ), " Plymouth Rocks ," " Beaneaters ," the " Collinsites " ( for manager Jimmy Collins )", and " Pilgrims.

British developments for Shermans included the fascine ( used by 79th Armoured Division ), Crib, Twaby Ark, Octopus, Plymouth ( Bailey Bridge ), and AVRE ( SBG bridge ).

Another version of the story is that he canvassed with Nancy, Lady Astor, MP for Plymouth Sutton, and received an embarrassingly friendly welcome at boarding houses who were used to renting rooms by the hour to sailors and their lady companions.

Millbridge is a small neighbourhood of Plymouth, on the boundary of what used to be the towns of Plymouth and Devonport, in the English county of Devon.

The Hoe also includes a long broad tarmacked promenade ( currently a disabled motorists car park ) which serves as a spectacular military parade ground and which is often used for displays by Plymouth based Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Army garrison, as well as for funfairs and open-air concerts.

For over a century and a half after Bradford wrote this passage, there is no record of Pilgrims being used to describe Plymouth ’ s founders, except when quoting Bradford.

Even though Plymouth celebrated Forefathers ' Day several times between 1769 and 1798, and used a variety of terms to honor Plymouth's founders, Pilgrims was not mentioned, other than in Robbins ' 1793 recitation.

In 2003, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £ 2, 000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys.

ITV Digital had call centres located in Pembroke Dock, Plymouth and used outsourced BT call centres in Cork, Republic of Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Likewise, although never mentioned, Smeaton's Tower on the seafront at Plymouth Hoe, was used for the honeymoon of " Shorty " Blake ( Mills ) and his wife Freda ( Kay Walsh ).

In 1851, the ironwork was sold and used to build the Brunel-designed Royal Albert Bridge on the railway between Plymouth and Saltash.

The term " Pilgrims " is now used primarily to refer to the Separatist congregation, although it is often applied to all the original settlers of Plymouth Colony ( both Separatist and Anglican ).

The name " Whalers " was selected after the Hartford Whalers of the NHL, with the Marlton team's jersey featuring the NHL team's logo but turned upside down to make the W an M. The team was restarted in 1998 as a roller hockey team, abandoning the upside down W for a sharper angrier whale logo similar to that used by the OHL Plymouth Whalers.

" Anthracite coal had been used before 1807, in this valley and elsewhere, in small quantities in furnaces, with an air blast ; but the traffic in coal as an article of general use, was commenced by Abijah Smith, of Plymouth.

Anthracite coal had been used before 1807, in this valley and elsewhere, in small quantities in furnaces, with an air blast ; but the traffic in coal as an article of general use, was commenced by Abijah Smith, of Plymouth.

Before the Tamar Bridge was opened, most car drivers wishing to travel between Saltash ( on the Cornish side ) and the Devon city of Plymouth used car ferries.

Cookworthy's factory at Plymouth, established in 1768, used kaolin clay and china stone to make porcelain with a body composition similar to that of the Chinese porcelains of the early eighteenth century.

While the K platform was also used for the Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries station wagon models, the minivan would soon eclipse them in popularity.

* In the 2001 TV Drama Back Home, Sharpthorne tunnel was used as part of the journey from Benwood School to Plymouth and Horsted Keynes station was made to look like Guildford Station.

" In 1972, AMC won the tender for Los Angeles Police Department cruisers, and Matadors were used by the department from 1972 to 1975, replacing the Plymouth Satellite.

After some re-engineering and a re-designation to Chrysler code LH, the Eagle Premier went on to form the backbone of Chrysler's passenger car lineup during the 1990s as the Chrysler Concorde ( a revived model name that was briefly used by Plymouth in 1951 and 1952 ), Chrysler New Yorker, Chrysler LHS, Dodge Intrepid, and Eagle Vision.

There is a regular passenger ferry from the tidal landing Admiral's Hard to Cremyll in Cornwall which is used for visitors to the Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, and commuters to Plymouth.

Though the car was carefully chosen – a red Plymouth Valiant – there were three cars used in the filming.

The original release featured a 1970 model with a 318 V-8 engine and " Plymouth " spelled out in block letters across the hood, as well as trunk lid treatment characteristic of the 1970 model ; a 1971 with a 225 Slant Six was also used.

* The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth

* The Mayflower Compact of 1620, in which the Plymouth colony's founders invoke " the name of God " and explain that their journey was taken, among other reasons, " for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith "

It derives its name from the old toll bridge ( adjacent to a naval saw mill ) across the creek between Eldad Hill and Molesworth Road, at one time the principal link between Plymouth and Devonport.

During development at the University of Plymouth, in conjunction with BAE Systems and Sumitomo Precision Products, the iBot was nicknamed Fred Upstairs ( after Fred Astaire ) because it can climb stairs: hence the name Ginger, after Astaire's regular film partner, Ginger Rogers, for a successor product.

The name of " Elizabeth Gaskell " commemorates the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell who lived in Plymouth Grove nearby.

Pilgrims ( US ), or Pilgrim Fathers ( UK ), is a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

She raced around Hazzard with her cousins, first in a yellow and black 1974 Plymouth Road Runner ( later on it was a Plymouth Satellite ) and then, from the mid-second season, in her trademark white 1980 Jeep CJ-7 christened " Dixie " with a Golden Eagle emblem on the hood ( and the name " Dixie " on the hood sides ).

* HMS Plymouth, any of nine ships bearing this name

* USS Plymouth, any of four ships bearing this name

In what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, the passengers of the Mayflower established a colony referred to at the time as " New Plymouth " ( although the name and spelling varied ).

Determined that the post be reclaimed in Plymouth Colony's name, William Bradford ordered Captain Standish to take action.

The land was subsequently part of the Pemaquid Patent, granted by the Plymouth Council for New England in 1631 to Robert Aldsworth and Gyles Elbridge, merchants from Bristol, England, from which the town derives its name.

George Starkweather's grandson, Karl Hillmer Starkweather ( who changed his name from Karl Starkweather Hillmer ), was a respected and lifelong Plymouth resident and local historian, and Ford Motor Company employee at the Wilcox Lake Tap Plant in which he was shop steward.

" But a brochure later put out by the Omaha Road stated that " the present name was given in honor of Brewster, a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which was named in honor of Elder William Brewster, one of the first settlers of Plymouth Colony.

Allied with the adjacent recreation field, where athletics are carried out, the school is a complete foundry of young manhood and young womanhood, an inspiration to the spirit that has written the name of Plymouth High School upon the top of the roster of public educational institutions.

By the spring of 1926, the school had been renamed Ward P. Davenport High School, and the stone tablet over the front door with the inscription " Plymouth High School " was replaced with one inscribed with Davenport's name.

The township takes its name from the settlers ' hometown of Plymouth in Devon.

The name Plymouth Furnace appears in the records about 1847 and was engaged in the manufacture of nails.

He moved to New Plymouth Boys ' High School ( a house of which bears his name today ) at the age of 15, and was head of his class for both of his two years.

Plymouth Township is the name of two places in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania:

Its official name at the time of inception was The Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse ( Ford Park ) Cemetery, although it is now seldom referred to by that title.