31 MAY 1946, Page 4

Long memories impel me to break a normally rigid rule

and put in a word for the fine old parish church of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, destroyed in the blitz of March, 1941. British history is built into the tower and the empty shell of St. Andrew's. There Hawkins and Drake worshipped, and the whole congregation rushed out of church one September morning in 158o to the Hoe because word had come that Francis Drake's 'Golden Hind' was beating into the Sound • after its three-year voyage round the world. If any edifice destroyed by the Luftwaffe deserves rebuilding it is this. What is wanted is ktoo,000 ; sufficient address is the Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth. * *