Plymouth Transport Through Time
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A01=Derek Tait
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Derek Tait
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=WG
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COP=United Kingdom
Cultural History
Engineering & Technology
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History
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IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445607252
Local & Urban History
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PD=20120510
Photography
POP=Chalford
Price=€10 to €20
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PUB=Amberley Publishing
Road & Transport
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
Subject=Transport: General Interest
Transport Books
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- ISBN 9781445607252
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2012
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With today's constant stream of busy traffic, it's hard to imagine a time when Plymouth had no cars, lorries or buses. With the dawn of photography, the only vehicles in the area would have been horse-drawn wagons or hand-carts and the occasional bicycle. Horse-drawn trams were introduced in the later 1800s and, with the introduction of the railway, it became far easier for people to travel further afield.The early 1900s saw the introduction of cars but these were very scarce and a man with a red flag would have to run in front of the car to warn of its coming. If children saw such a vehicle, they would run along behind it. Today it's very easy to get from one point to another without much thought whereas 120 years ago, travelling the same distance, would have been an adventure and a day out that would be talked about for weeks after.
Derek Tait has written numerous on subjects including social history, nostalgia, childhood, the First and Second World Wars, Houdini, Singapore and local history. He was born in Plymouth in 1961 and spent his early years in Singapore and Malaysia, writing several books about his time there. His past jobs have included working as a photographer and as a cartoonist. He has been writing local history books for many years now and has regular columns in the Herald, the Plymouth Shopper, the Plymstock and Wembury Marketplace Magazine and the Cramleigh Magazine. He also writes blog articles for Devon Life. He lives in Plymouth.
