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The Stranger's Handbook to the Western Metropolis

containing a concise and familiar description of Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse and neighbourhood
including the government establishments

A Naval Officer (Ed.).

Devonport: W Wood & Son. (1841) 96 pp.

Prepared by Michael Steer

Plymouth, from the 18th century, lacking the infrastructure and hinterland of Bristol and Liverpool, began to decline. From this period its economy became dominated by its connections with the navy, With the new royal dockyard and naval base in 1691, Devonport, known until 1824 only as Plymouth Dock, grew up entirely on the back of the dockyard and naval auxiliary industry. Although Plymouth benefited from remaining the major metropolis in the west - the railway arrived in 1844, shortly after this guide appeared, and the port was designated as an official emigration terminal two years earlier - the dockyard and the navy assumed a position as by far the largest employer of labour, and the relationship situated Plymouth and Devonport within the national economy in a unique way. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally from a copy in the Bodleian Library collection and can be downloaded from Google Books. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers