Photo gallery

Photographs held in Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

Photographs from collections held in Plymouth and West Devon Record Office can now be viewed online, either on the Plymouth City Council website or on local historical society websites. Click on a link below to see the photographs.

Western Morning News and Plymouth Herald photographs

Images of news events in Plymouth and Devon, from 1941 to 1970, from accession 1418.

We hold in excess of 38,000 glass plate negatives dating from 1941 to 1970, taken by the photographers of the Western Morning News and the Plymouth Herald. They contain a wide variety of images covering all aspects of daily life within Devon and in particular the Plymouth area.

Parts of the collection are being scanned by a member of staff from the Plymouth Herald and the images can be viewed and purchased on the newspaper's website (see the categories below). A selection of the negatives from 1941 to 1946 are available. The negatives for the whole collection can be viewed in the public search room in the Record Office (booking required).

• Events
• Military and civilian units
• The people
• The City
• People of note
• The rebuild begins

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Living in Plymouth

Images from various accessions depicting everyday life in Plymouth.

• Photograph of Charlotte Mary Yonge and her mother, the former standing, wearing a black dress with buttons down the front and a long muff chain, the latter, seated in a Gothic side chair, wearing a widows cap and black gloves. This has evidently been taken in a photographer's studio, and may perhaps the one taken by a Plymouth photographer which was mentioned in a letter to Katharine Helmore (1861). (Document reference number 308/341).
• Photograph of the composer William Mogg of Devonport (1809 to 1898). (Document Reference number 799/1).

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Churches in Plymouth

Images and building plans of places of worship in the Plymouth area.

• Plan of Stoke Damerel parish church, Devonport, 6 June 1911. (Document reference number 638/13).
• Sketches of Ker Street, Morice Street and Fore Street Wesleyan churches. (Fore Street was formerly Hope Baptist church and was latterly known as Devonport Central Hall). Also shows a sketch of the post war rebuilt Central Hall using an old aircraft hangar from Harrowbeer airfield. (Document reference number 1248/7).
• Ebenezer Methodist church (later Plymouth Central Hall), c1850. (Document reference number 1435/2).
• Exterior view of King Street Methodist church, Plymouth, pre 1945. (Document reference number 1643/48).
• Section and elevation of Keyham Wesleyan Methodist church, Devonport, 13 December 1900. (Document reference number 2961/PCC/60/1/731).

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Plymouth Pannier Market

Images from accession 1550 displayed courtesy of the Plymouth Pannier Market.

• Clearing of the Plymouth Pannier Market site
• Construction of the Plymouth Pannier Market
• Interior of the Plymouth Pannier Market
• Finished building of the Plymouth Pannier Market

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Plymouth Hartley Park Reservoir

Images from the Western Morning News Collection (accession 1418) displayed courtesy of the Friends of Hartley Park.

• Hartley Park Reservoir

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Modbury area

Images from the WRJ Baker Collection (accession 881) displayed courtesy of Modbury Heritage.

• Modbury and the surrounding area

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Hallsands Village

Images of the now destroyed Hallsands village from accession 1747 displayed courtesy of the Old Hallsands website.

• Hallsands village