Buy this book on-line ROBINSON**, CHRIS: : Plymouth in the Twenties and ThirtiesUK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.PEN & INK PUBLISHING,2008. ISBN 9780954348069.
UK,landscape 8vo wraps,1st edn.NMINT.No owner inscrptn,no price removal - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered, glossy,monochrome photographic illustrated thin card covers with brown letters to front cover.maroon spine/backstrip with white lettering and NO reading creases to same,rear cover with background city street scenic sepia photograph with two montage'd white bordered thumbnail sepia photographs - the seafront and another street scene; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - old and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any page' corners,unread apart from my own collation.UK,landscape 8vo wraps,1st edn,5-256pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,13 chapters, acknowledgements,a bibliography with b/w photographs and photographic illustration; plus [unpaginated] contemporary b/w photographic title page with b/w letters and contents list/table with contemporary b/w photographic aerial cityscape photograph to it's reverse.
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.A time when the local electorate returned the country's first effective female MP - Nancy Astor.It was a time when Plymouth Argyle becams an established football league team and Plymouth Albion became one of the top rugby clubs in the country.
Weaving his narrative around some 500 fascinating period photographs (most of them in book form for the first time) popular Plymouth hitorian Chris Robinson recaptures the sights and stories of an age that saw the BBC first broadcast to the nation; the talkies supersede silent movies and electricity arrive in almost every home.
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; when trams rattled around the city streets; when horse and handcart still had a part to play and when the shops and services here were not necessarily the same as they were in every other town and city across the country.
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