The Books
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A History of Devonport |
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A History of Devonport is the long awaited story of what was, for a brief period, the biggest of the Three Towns (Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport) and the largest community in Devon and Cornwall. Here in one lavishly illustrated, full-colour volume, is the story of how a modest man-made facility at Hamoaze became the heart of a thriving town that was Plymouth Dock and later became known as Devonport. Published Oct 2010 |
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150 years of the Co-operative in Plymouth |
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Christmas day meeting 150 years ago that saw the birth of the Plymouth Co-operative society. A lavishly illustrated, 256-page hardback, the book charts the rise and rise of the humble people’s enterprise that started out in an upstairs room on the Barbican. Published Dec 2009 |
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Plymouth Then & Now: Plymouth - an ever evolving city |
| In this, his third Plymouth Then & Now outing, historian Chris Robinson once again takes us on a fascinating tour of Plymouth. Simple and informative and, at times, wistful and sad, it’s a great formula - seldom has local history been so easy to digest! Published Nov 2009 |
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Plymouth in the Twenties & Thirties |
| Plymouth in the Twenties and Thirties - for the first time in print, here, at last, is a truly wonderful look at a time when the Three Towns came of age, when Plymouth became a City and it’s Mayor became a Lord Mayor. For those old enough to remember that time, the book is a must-have trip down memory lane: for those who were born too late, here is the city as it was before the war. Published 2008 |
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Plymouth's Historic Barbican |
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and the largest concentration of cobbled streets in Britain, Plymouth’s historic Barbican area is one the country’s great treasures and its little-altered street plan is one that Sir Francis Drake would easily recognise. Commissioned to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Plymouth Barbican Association, this book chronicles the attempts to preserve the old parts of this important Elizabethan seaport. Published 2007 |
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Plymouth Then & Now The Changing Face of Plymouth |
| Excluding the immediate post-war reconstruction period, Plymouth, since the mid-1990s, has undergone a greater level of redevelopment than at any other time in its long and eventful history. Having kept a watchful eye throughout, Herald historian and artist Chris Robinson serves up a welcome second helping of Then & Now photographs that take us on a fascinating journey around this great city. Published 2006 |
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It Came To Our Door |
| Sixty years after the end of the war and the first publication of Pat Twyford’s evocative, eye-witness of Plymouth during the war years It Came To Our Door is back in the shops again - this time with some four hundred illustrations, ninety percent of them new to the title around half of them appearing in book form for the first time ever! Published 2005 |
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Plymouth College The First 100 Years |
| 450 pages with over 1000 illustrations make this chronicle of Plymouth College an indespensible volume for anyone with a connection to the School. It is also a fascinating insight into the culture and climate of Plymouth and Plymothians, and of England and the English, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published 2005 |
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Plymouth Then & Now |
| If you've ever wanted to locate lost landmarks of Plymouth - look no further. In this breathtaking tour of the Hoe, Barbican & City Centre, the author lines up the old and new, makes sense of those difficult to place pre-war images, as well as chronicling countless post-war changes to the ever evolving city-scape. Published 2004 |
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Elizabethan Plymouth |
| A document in words and pictures of the post-war redevelopment of Plymouth. With almost 1,000 images spanning some 50 years this is a book you will read again and again, each time finding a little treasure that you perhaps missed before. Published 2002 |
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The Argyle Book |
| An illustrated record of every person who has played a league game for the Pilgrims since they first became a league club back in 1920. This fascinating A-W of Plymouth Argyle FC (there have been no Yeos, Yates's or Zimmermans yet) also contains a large number of fascinating and previously unpublished facts tables, compiled by Argyle statistician Terry Guswell. Published 2002 |
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Union Street |
| 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. Published 2000 |
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Plymouth Pubs Past and Present The Prince George and 100 others |
| Based on Chris Robinson's 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. Published 1997 |
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Plymouth Pubs Past and Present The Harvest Home and 100 others |
| 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. Published 1995 |
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Victorian Plymouth As Time Draws On |
| 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. Published 1991 |
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Plymouth As Time Draws On Volume Two |
| 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. Published 1988 |
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Plymouth As Time Draws On Volume One |
| 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. Published 1985 |
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