Plymouth cards and postcards

If you would like to buy any of the cards or postcards on this page please email library@plymouth.gov.uk or phone 01752 305903.

Plymouth cards

Coloured engravings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries featuring views of Plymouth.

Plymouth cards cost 40p each, or three for £1. Postage and packing is £1.

Images available:

• Albemarle Villas: Street scene of Albemarle Villas in Stoke, with Stonehouse in the distance
• Devonport: Scene of Devonport and shipping on the river
• Devonport Dockyard: Harbour scene of ships and smaller craft in the dockyard at Devonport
• Devonport: Street scene including the Town Hall, Column and library in Devonport
• Drake's Island: View from Mount Edgcumbe deer park of Drake's Island, the Sound, and Plymouth beyond the Hoe
• Fore Street: Street scene; entrance to the Dockyard, Fore Street, Devonport
• Plymouth Hoe: Plymouth Hoe before Smeaton's Tower
• Royal Albert Bridge
• St Andrews Church
• St Michaels Terrace: View of St. Michael's Terrace in Stoke Damerel

Plymouth postcards

Featuring images from the Plymouth Theatre History Archive.

Plymouth postcards 50p for all six (includes two free bookmarks). Postage and packing is £1 (limited numbers available).

Images available:

• Theatre Royal programme cover for The White Slave.
• Theatre Royal poster from 1905 advertising Henry Irving's farewell performances.
• Plymouth theatres old and new. Image includes the Theatre Royal complex, Plymouth Athenaeum, Frankfort Gate Theatre and the Interior of the Palace Theatre.
• Palace Theatre programme covers dating from the 1950s. (three different designs)