Bythorn, Bronshill Road, Torquay
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Bythorn, Bronshill Road, Torquay
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 8 May 2021
Peter Cook's grandmother's house, where Peter's mother was living when he was born at St Chad's nursing home on 17th November 1937, and where he spent his early childhood. 'Bythorn' ... was a large, boxy, substantial and slightly gloomy house, too big to be ordinary, too hemmed in to be grand, at the end of a dark, mysterious driveway. There were mullioned windows, a verandah, a monkey-puzzle tree ..." https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RMd6JHis3REC&pg=PT16&lpg=PT16&dq=%22bythorn%22+Peter+Cook+Bronshill&source=bl&ots=pBBxsbqCMf&sig=ACfU3U0Ngsv9iGQHAjYqIMbtNKi90GwXoA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB8PT5gIXtAhWCilwKHfh7AsMQ6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22bythorn%22%20Peter%20Cook%20Bronshill&f=false . However, a blue plaque has been placed on a house elsewhere in Torquay, claiming it to have been Peter's birthplace Image Which one is right?
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Image Location
Latitude
50.474787
Longitude
-3.527442