Help us collect the history of Plymouth

Hi Readers

Just a quick post asking you to help us collect as much history as possible about the city of Plymouth , Plymouth is one of the most historic cities in the UK , so anything you have just posts it here .

greets
admin

Hi...The Link To this website provides an awful lot of Information about Plymouth and Hitler, I Do Hope its ok to Post a link to website just there is so much information I couldnt possibly shorten it without losing alot of the information:

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/waiting/forstpage.htm

1200 Plymouth is a small fishing village. Later it grows into a town.

1254 Plymouth is given a charter (a document granting certain rights)

1390 A law states that pilgrims going abroad must leave either from Plymouth or Dover

1403 The French attack Plymouth

1500 Plymouth has a population of around 3,500

1500 Plymouth has a population of around 5,000

1590 Drake builds a conduit to bring water to Plymouth

1627 Plymouth is struck by plague

1641 A writer says that Plymouth is chiefly dependent on the fish trade

1642 Civil War begins and Plymouth supports parliament

1643 The royalists lay siege to Plymouth but fail to take it

1658 A new grammar school is built in Plymouth

1664 Charles Church is built

1693 A dry dock is built at Devonport

1698 A rope house is built at Devonport

1727 A new dock is built

1758 A turnpike road is built to London

1762 Another dock is added. The first theatre in Plymouth is built.

1772 The first bank in Plymouth opens

1773 Stonehouse Bridge is built

1793 Another dock is built

1798 A dispensary where the poor can obtain free medicines opens

(information taken from localhistories.org)

1801 Plymouth old town has a population of 19,000. Devonport has 23,000 and Stonehouse has over 3,400

1821 An eye hospital opens

1832 Cholera kills 1,031 people. Horse drawn buses begin running.

1840 South Devon and Cornwall Hospital opens

1844-50 The Great Western Docks are built

1848 The railway reaches Plymouth

1849 Cholera kills 1,894 people

1859 The Royal Albert Bridge opens

1860-1870 A line of forts is built around Plymouth

1872 Smallpox kills 448 people. Horse drawn trams begin running.

1876 The first public library opens

1881 The first telephone exchange opens. A naval engineering college is built.

1885 An aquarium is built

1888 Hoe Park opens

1896 The first council houses are built in Laira Road

1897 A museum opens

1920 The first motor buses begin running

1928 Plymouth is made a city

1931 Central Park opens

1935 Plymouth is given a Lord Mayor

World War II In Plymouth 1,174 people are killed by bombing

1943 A plan for Plymouth is drawn up

1951 The boundaries of the city are extended

1961 Tamar Bridge opens

1962 The Civic Centre is built

1965 Plymouth Polytechnic opens

1967 Drakes Circus is rebuilt

1968 Ship building at Plymouth Dockyard ends

1973 Ferries begin running between Plymouth and France

1978 A new Central Library is built

1981 Plymouth General Hospital opens

1988 The Armada Centre opens

1989 Plymouth Dome opens

1991 Plymouth Pavilions opens

(information taken from www.localhistopries.org)

Last post on Plymouth History ...I promise lol Just a few links which may be worth a click I think they are very intersting:

GENERAL HISTORY:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/A%20History.htm

EMIGRATION THROUGHOUT PLYMOUTH:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Emigration.htm

PRINCESS POCAHONTAS AND PLYMOUTH:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Princess%20Pocahontas.htm

PLYMOUTH AND PREPARING FOR WWII
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1941.htm

PLYMOUTH AND THE MARCH RAIDS:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1941-Blitz.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII IN 1940:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1940.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII IN 1941:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1941.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII IN 1942:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1942.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII IN 1943:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1943.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII IN 1944:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1944.htm

PLYMOUTH AND WWII IN 1945:
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1945.htm

Hi Amy

thanks for the great post i have erased the first part because it allready excists in the a brief history about plymouth section , could you please copy the other posts into it , that would be great .

thanks
ian

Of course sorry, im not too good at the whole forum thing just yet lol!!!

Regards
Amy

Well done Amy..

I had recently discovered that site from other research I was doing.

It is jam packed with info and does tend to take a while to sift through it all.
When i saw the topic, I thought of that site and came in to post about it but you've already done it