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Pre 1860 1860 onwards Museum History Research

Read about the town's fascinating past by clicking the navigation buttons at the top of this page.

To contact the Dartmouth History Research Group: walter.fleet@talktalk.net

This link leads to the Dartmouth History research Groups excellent website

BOOKS ABOUT DARTMOUTH

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Reflections of Dartmouth
Images of the River, Town and Coastline • £25

Nigel Evans
• 200 pages including 8 page fold-out
• 176 illustrations in colour including map
• 17,500 words • hardback
• 250mm x 250mm

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John Hawley
Merchant, Mayor and Privateer • £14.99

Michael Connors
• 168 pages including 8 in colour
• 70 illustrations including 21 in colour and 5 maps
• colour endpapers • 73,000 words • hardback
• 234mm x 156mm

 
 
A magnificently produced book on Dartmouth, "The Chronicles of Dartmouth" by Kingswear based writer Don Collinson, is published by Richard Webb. Since going on sale the book has proved to be Dartmouth's bestseller with more than a 2000 copies being snapped up! It is temporarily out of print, but will be reprinted in 2009 • 300 pages • 468 illustrations including
45 in colour • 125,000 words • hardback • £25
• 295mm x 210mm

 

 

 The most authoritative work on the area, "DARTMOUTH AND ITS NEIGHBOURS" was written by Ray Freeman, a local historian. The book has recently been updated and republished in hardback by Richard Webb and it is available from the Harbour Bookshop, price £15.99

 


Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
An Illustrated History • £25

Dr Jane Harrold and Dr Richard Porter
• 208 pages • 323 Illustrations including
118 in colour 32 in sepia and 173 in black & white
• 85,000 words • hardback • 279mm x 279mm



Dartmouth Ghosts & Mysteries
Tales of the Town and its Villages • £9.99


Ken Taylor
• 128 pages • 32 illustrations including 5 in colour
• colour endpapers • 52,000 words • hardback
• 245mm x 165mm

 

Further up the River
and fifty other poems • £9.99


Kevin Pyne
• 100 pages • 4 illustrations including 3 in colour
• colour endpapers • hardback
• 210mm x 150mm

 

First across the Line
and fifty other poems • £9.99


Kevin Pyne
• 100 pages • 4 illustrations including 3 in colour
• colour endpapers • hardback
• 210mm x 150mm

 
The Harbour Bookshop 12 Fairfax Place, Dartmouth, Devon TQ6 9AE United Kingdom Tel. & Fax.: 0044 (0)1803 832448 e-mail:harbourbookshop@hotmail.co.uk
Please mention the Dartmouth Directory when you order.
All books on this page published by Richard Webb
 
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