Nigel Overton, Curator City & Maritime Heritage, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
Nigel introduces us to a number of people from the early days of photography: Henry Fox Talbot and his photographs of Mount Edgcumbe and Plymouth, and pioneering photographers such as Linnaeus Tripe, Robert Hunt and Richard Beard, all of whom were from Devonport.
The photographs they took, and evidence from the numerous Union Street photographic studios, provide a fascinating glimpse into the local and social history of the ‘Three Towns’, and the growing fashion for photography...
Join local author and history enthusiast, Di Lawer for an interesting presentation about how the leisure activity of roller skating was practised from Victorian times in Plymouth up to the outbreak of World War Two. Di’s book on this subject is currently for sale in the Museum shop. Advance booking advised - tickets available from the Museum Welcome Desk.
