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Updated: 19 December 2011

A History of Plymouth Acts of Parliament (Local) Admiralty House Air Services Airport Airship R100 Overhead Almshouses Amalgamation of the Three Towns, 1914 Ambulance Services	American Prisoners of War in Plymouth Ancient Parishes and Municipal Wards in the 1860s Anglo-Saxon Plymouth Aquarium "Archives from the Attic" Archives Service Army Barracks and Depots The Athenaeum

Ballard Institute for Boys / Ballard Centre Banking Barton Building SEE Business Houses (Barton) Baths and Wash-houses Beacon Castle Sports Ground Beating the Bounds The Belvedere and Bull Ring The 'Black Book' Municipal Records Blind Institutions The Blitz March and April 1941	"Borough Arms" Coffee Tavern The Breakwater Bretonside Bus Station Bridges Broadcasting Services Buonaparte and Plymouth Burrator Reservoir Bus Fares 1951 and 1965 (to the City Centre) Business Houses (Local only)

Camera Obscura Can you help, please? Cann Quarry Canal Castle SEE ALSO Plympton Castle Cemeteries Census Returns 1841 to 1901 Charities Charter of Incorporation, 1439 Chelson Meadow Cholera Visitations 1832 and 1849 Chubb's Hotel Churches, Chapels & Places of Worship	Cinemas Citizens' Advice Bureau City Status Civic Centre Civic Flagstaff in Royal Parade Coat of Arms Compton Gifford Convents and Nunneries Courts of Justice Crownhill The Cycledrome Cycle Speedway

Death by firing squad Derry's Clock Devonport Column Devonport Public Hall Devonport Sewage Disposal Works Devonport Town Hall	Domesday Plymouth Drake Institute Drake's Island Ducking Stool The "Dutton" - a classic shipwreck tale

Earliest Residents (1332) Earls of Plymouth - in the Peerage East Stonehouse Eddystone Lighthouses Edward, the Black Prince, and Plymouth Eggbuckland	Electricity Service The Embankment Emigration through Plymouth The Exchange Exmouth Hall, Devonport

Ferries Fire Brigades First Dual Carriageway road Flying, Early	Freedom Day Freemen of the Borough, 1817 Friaries

Gas Service Gdynia Fountain Gogmagog and Corinaeus Gordon Institute for Young Men, Devonport Government House Grain Silo	Great War (First World War) Great War - Roll of Honour Guildhalls Guilds Guinness Clock

Hamoaze House Hoe Bandstand Hoe Cafes (Tea Pavilion, Floral Cafe & Mallard Cafe) Honorary Freemen of the City Horse Bus Services Horse Cabs Horse Parades	Hospital of Orphans' Aid Hospital of the Poor's Portion Hospital Ships in Plymouth Sound Hospitals and Eye Infirmary House of Rest, Plympton Housing and Housing Estates

Imports Port of Plymouth	Island House



Keyham Memories

Labour Exchanges Lamplighters - the last at Plymouth Landing Stages, Devonport Law Courts Library Service Licensed Premises UNDER CONSTRUCTION	Lime Kiln - the last at Plymouth Liner Tenders The Lines, Devonport Look-out House on Plymouth Hoe Lord Mayor Status

Markets (including the Corn Exchange) "Mayflower II" Mayor Choosing Mayor and Corporation of Crabtree Mayors and Lord Mayors Mechanics' Institutes Memorials and Monuments Millbay Docks (the Great Western Docks)	Millbay Rinkeries Mills (corn and grist only) Motor Bus Services Motor Boats, Early Motor Vehicles, Early Mount Batten Breakwater Municipal Offices (Pre-War) Museum & Art Gallery

Navy, Army & Air Force Institute	Newspapers

Oddfellows' Hall, Devonport	Orphanages

Parks and Recreation Grounds People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) Penitentiaries Pennycross Stadium Phoenix Wharf Pier Pilgrim Fathers Pitts' Memorial Hall Place-Names, Origins of Places of Worship SEE Churches Plague Visitations "Plan for Plymouth" (1943) Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club Plymouth Argyle Football Club Plymouth Around the World Plymouth Cricket Club Plympton - Quick index Plympton Castle	Plympton Priory Plymstock - Quick index Plymstock Shopping Centre (Broadway) Police Service Population Postal Service (and Post Offices) Prehistoric Plymouth Princess Pocahontas and Plymouth Prison Ships in the Hamoaze Prisoner of War Camps Prisons Promenade Pier Prominent Citizens Prudential Building Prysten House & Abbey Hall Public Mortuary



Railways Reconstruction 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s Register Offices Registration Districts Remembrance Day Plymouth's first Roads, Streets, etc. Roman Plymouth Royal Air Force Cattewater Royal Air Force Harrowbeer Royal Air Force Mount Batten	Royal Air Force Roborough Royal Citadel Royal Dockyard Royal Fleet Club Royal Marine Barracks Royal Naval Air Service Cattewater Royal Naval Air Service Laira Royal Navy Establishments Royal Sailors' Rests Royal Union Baths

Saint Budeaux Saint Dunstan's Abbey SEE Convents Saint James's Hall Saint Joseph's Home for the Elderly (RC) Saint Joseph's RC Sailors' Home Scheduled Ancient Monuments Schools Scouting Second World War (1939-45) Seven O'Clock Regulars Ship Building, Repair & Breaking Up	Shoeblack Brigade (Ragged Schools) Siege of Plymouth (1643-1644) Staddon Wall Stage & Royal Mail Coach Services Steam Trawler - the last at Plymouth Stoke Damerel local government Stonehouse Town Hall Sugar Refinery Sundial Sutton Pool and Harbour Birthplace of Plymouth

Tamerton Foliot Telephone Service Temperance Halls Theatres Three Towns Soldiers' Institute Time "Tin Pan Alley" Market Tinside Lido Toll-Gates	Town Wall and Gates Tramways - Electric, Horse and Steam Trinity House Obelisk, The Hoe Triumphal Arch, Plympton Turnchapel Jetty Turnchapel Jubilee Hall Turnchapel Pier Turnchapel Wharves Turnpike Trusts



Victoria Wharves Virginia House Settlement	Volunteer Corps

Warleigh House, Tamerton Foliot Water Supply Watering the Streets West Hoe Baths West Hoe Pier West Hoe Miniature Railway West Park Sports Stadium Western College	Weston Peverel or Pennycross Westwell Street Skating Rink The 'White Book' Municipal Records Widey Court SEE Eggbuckland The 'Widey Court Book' Municipal Records Winter Gardens Wombwell's Menagerie Workhouses

Young Men's Christian Association Young Women's Christian Association	Zoo