Plymouth cards and postcards

If you would like to buy any of the cards or postcards on this page please email localstudies@plymouth.gov.uk or telephone 01752 305909.

Plymouth cards

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

Plymouth cards cost £1 each, or buy the set of eight for £6.50. 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 cost 20p each or £1.20 for all six (includes two free bookmarks) Postage and packing is 50p.

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)