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Click for further details on the Union Street book Union Street

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A colourful, detailed and lavishly illustrated account of the City's most famous street. From marshland to main road, from music hall to dance hall and cinema, this is "The Strip" that became the serviceman's favourite playground. More recently it has gone from publand to clubland, but there is a lot more to it than that. A lot more, and here in these pages we have an indispensable part of the history of Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport.
Click for further details on Plymouth: As Time Draws On Plymouth - As Time Draws On

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This is not a standard history of the City, neither is it just a book of pictures; rather it is an attempt to show glimpses of the City as it is today, chronicling changes and developments and stimulating the reader to look afresh at buildings and scenery that he or she may otherwise overlook or take for granted.
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In this second volume of drawings and articles about aspects of Plymouth, Chris Robinson continues to research the stories behind the sights and scenery that make up this modern City.
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What better way to look at nineteenth-century Plymouth than through the observations of those who saw it for themselves. Chris Robinson's Victorian Plymouth: As Time Draws On brings together a wealth of such material hitherto denied all but the most ardent book and print collector.

The illustrations, all by contemporary nineteenth-century artists, bring to life the landscapes and streetscapes that made up the Three Towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse and the many neighbouring villages that now fall within the modern city boundary.
Click for further details on Plymouth Pubs Past and Present - Harvest Home and a hundred others Plymouth Pubs Past and Present - The Harvest Home and a hundred others

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Featuring 101 full frontal photographs and ninety supplementary shots - interiors, special features, signs and a number of now and then's - the book is lavishly illustrated and contains a detailed pre-and-post war map showing the exact location of the 27 City Centre pubs (Past and Present) featured in the book ... Including the Harvest Home, The Revenue, Oporto, Newtown Hotel, Heath's and Pickens.

In addition to the well-researched potted history of each hostelry the author has also compiled a comprehensive record of every licensee he could find record of over the last 200 years - The names of over 1600 licensees are recorded here and all appear in the informative index at the back of the book, making it a fascinating tool for the family historian and an indispensable item for anyone with an interest in or a connection with the pub trade - from whichever side of the bar!
Click for further details on Plymouth Pubs Past and Present - Prince George and a hundred others Plymouth Pubs Past and Present - The Prince George and a hundred others

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When Chris Robinson's first volume of Plymouth Pubs Past & Present was published a second collection was promised - and here it is. Based on his popular Saturday series in the Evening Herald, the second book, like the first, features 101 Plymouth pubs, half of them either no longer with us or closed. And sadly, for pub enthusiasts, it is that word "closed" that haunts so many of the premises featured in this work.