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The Plymouth Through the Lens series is published by the author and copies are available either through any good bookshop or by post only (post free) from him at 15 Watts Park Road, Plymouth, PL2 3NN. Foreign orders should be accompanied by a Sterling cheque. Copies can also be viewed and purchased at the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office, Clare Place, Coxside, Plymouth.
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VOLUME 6 Whether you are old enough to remember the Lyric Cinema or young enough to recall that water once flowed beneath "Shaky Bridge", you cannot fail to find something in this latest volume of the Plymouth Through the Lens Series to bring the memories flooding back. It might be collecting scrap metal in 1952, admiring the Metropolitan car in the 1960s or going on a coach tour to Penzance for 15s 3d. Or perhaps you used the Turnchapel push and pull trains, caught a bus to South Down Road and remember when Egg Buckland was just a rural village. In addition to aerial pictures of the pre-War city centre, this volume also contains a special feature on the old Market and its adjacent "Tin Pan Alley". And those under the age of 134 will learn the identity of the man who drove the first railway locomotive across the Royal Albert Bridge in 1859!
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VOLUME 5 In this latest volume of the Plymouth Through the Lens Series, local historian Brian Moseley reveals new information about the first paddle-steamer on the River Tamar and tells of the extraordinary lengths to which some loyal subjects went earlier this century in order to catch a glimpse of their King. And did you know that Devonport once had a public house with the unusual if not unique name of the Gypsy Tent... and that it still stands? Or that Devonport had the only Moravian chapel west of Bristol? There is a special feature about the old Promenade Pier, a unique picture of the visit to Plymouth of an unusual railway locomotive, and a view of a much lamented but seemingly rarely photographed theatre where the opening performance started a half an hour early! As in previous volumes in the series, most of the photographs have not been published before and the descriptive text is intended to extend the reader's knowledge of Plymouth's fascinating past.
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