The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter The following gallery offers an exclusive view of some of the extremely rare and powerful photos from the city’s Fred Crisp collection. The images will feature in The Box’s ‘Media Lab’ gallery when it opens as wellContinue reading “Fred Crisp Photography”
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Jack Pickup Exhibition
Plymouth Unitarian Church Plymouth Unitarian Church | Notte Street | Plymouth PL1 2HG | 01752 290091Website Facebook Twitter The doors of the Unitarian Church in Notte Street were officially opened in May 1958. The congregation had been meeting in temporary premises for the previous seventeen years because the Unitarian Chapel in Treville Street had beenContinue reading “Jack Pickup Exhibition”
National Marine Biological Library
A Virtual Tour National Marine Biological Library The Laboratory | Citadel Hill | Plymouth | PL1 2PB Facebook Twitter The library was opened in 1887 to support the research being undertaken by scientists working at The Marine Biological Association (MBA). It is one of the largest marine reference libraries in the world holding the followingContinue reading “National Marine Biological Library”
Tinside Lido
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Tinside Lido opened on 2 October 1935. It’s a wonderful example of art deco architecture and is Grade II listed. It’s also been voted as one of the 10 best outdoor pools in Europe. There can’t beContinue reading “Tinside Lido”
Group Profile: Bridging The Tamar
Bridging The Tamar Pemros Road | St Budeaux | Plymouth PL5 1LP | 01752 361577 Email Facebook Twitter Instagram The Visitor Centre at the Saltash Bridge opened its doors for the first time in May 2019. Since then ‘Bridging the Tamar’ has welcomed many visitors and achieved great things. The project was started as thereContinue reading “Group Profile: Bridging The Tamar”
The Discovery Expedition in Pictures
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter These amazing images are from a collection of personal effects that belonged to a man called Frederick Ernest Dailey (1873-1961). They are from the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904, otherwise known as the ‘Discovery Expedition’ on whichContinue reading “The Discovery Expedition in Pictures”
Mount Batten Tower
Mount Batten Tower Facebook Mount Batten Tower is an excellent example of a state-of-the-art gun tower of the mid-17th century. It’s a three-storey circular structure built largely of limestone quarried from the surrounding headland but with some use of local granite too. Claire at Mount Batten has sent us these wonderful photographs of the TowerContinue reading “Mount Batten Tower”
Drake’s Island: From the Archives
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter There are few Plymouth landmarks as recognisable as this little island and we’re very lucky to have an amazing space in this city like Plymouth Sound, but how many times have you stood on the Hoe andContinue reading “Drake’s Island: From the Archives”
Plymouth and the National Health Service
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter The archives at The Box contain a range of pictures of figures linked to the UK’s National Health Service. Here, Media Archivist Stacey Anderson guides us through a few significant examples….. On July 5, 1948 the NationalContinue reading “Plymouth and the National Health Service”
Plymouth History Festival 