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Webpage updated: March 01, 2019

        

ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD PLYMOUTH - A-Z INDEX  |  COBOURG STREET

OCCUPANTS OF COBOURG STREET IN 1953

South Side (from Saltash Street towards York Street):

  • 01 - NL;
  • 02 - NL;
  • 03 - NL;
  • 04 - Millbay Laundry, Cleaning and Dyeing Company Limited receiving office; also V H Bullivant and William E Hillier;
  • 05 - W and T Avery, weighing machine makers;
  • 06 - John Taylor and Sons (Plymouth) Limited, leather and machine belt merchants; also William Miller Marsden and Mrs L E Gordon;
    Here was Milton Street
  • 07 - R K Hart trading as A J Harvey, pork butchers;

The gap occupied by the bus stop for the 35, 43, and 44 services was formerly Milton Street.
© City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery.

  • 08 - W F Jary and Son, boot repairers; Mr A L Babcock, trading as Systemax, office equipment dealers; and Messrs Henry Vincent Limited, clothiers;
  • 08½ and 09½ - J Sanger and Son Limited, wholesale electrical goods merchants;
  • 10 - S Knowles trading as Motorparts, motor car accessories dealer;
  • 11 - Le Brasseur Surgical Manufacturing Company Limited, ladies' department; also Clifford J Cook;
  • 12 - H Rose trading as Plymouth Pet Stores;
  • 13 - NL;
  • 14 - H A Hutchins and Sons, dairymen;
    Here was Richmond Street
  • 15 - William B Carveth, butcher; also Henry James Hill;
  • 16 - Mrs Sanders; also James P Allen;
  • 17 - Peter W Evans; also Harry Roberts; also Mrs M J Barrett;
  • 18 - Baker Brothers, builders; also George Baker;
  • 19 - NL;
  • 20 - Mrs E B Bickham;
  • 21 - Mrs N Mumford, general stores, and Horswell Estates, auctioneers, estate  agents and valuers, properties managed, insurances effected and mortgages arranged.  Telephone number Plymouth 61727;
  • 22 - William Leslie Marshall;
  • 23 - Mrs F E Wolny, guest house;
  • 24 - John H Symons, shoe repairer; also John E Symons;
  • 25 - F G March trading as J H March, builder;
  • 26 - Mrs L Forsyth;
  • 27 - H and B Credit Traders, credit drapers;
  • 28 - James Frederick Whittingham;
  • 29 - NL;
  • 30 - Harry Mitchell; also Mrs M Puleston; also Frank Charles Teague;;
  • 31 - Collectors Exchange Limited, stamp dealers; also John Henry Bunt
  • 32 - Derelict;
  • 33 - Derelict;
  • 34 - Derelict;
  • 35 - Derelict;
  • 36 - G P Skinner (Blinds) Limited, blind manufacturers;
  • 37 - Mrs A S Phipps and Mrs N C Woodmancy trading as Lavinia, ladies' outfitters;
  • 38 - Hallett and Whitton Limited, builders' merchants;
  • 39 - NL;
  • 40 - James Peters;
  • 41 - Frederick Horswill;
  • 42 - Thomas Arthur Shreeve;
  • 43 - George Henry Jenkin;
  • 44 - NL;
  • 45 - NL;
    Here was York Street

The junction of York Street (left) with Cobourg Street in 1960.
The Newtown Hotel was the last building in York Street.
©  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.

  • 46 - Frank Edward Friend, Post Office and stationer;
    Here was Gloucester Lane
  • 47 - Baby Imperial Restaurant;
  • 48 - S Potter, ladies' hairdresser;
  • 49 - George Pill and Partners., radio dealers;
  • 50 - Harold George Tozer, dairyman;
  • 51 - Mrs Q A Eddy, confectioner, and Arthur Edwards, boot repairer; also Ernest R Hawkins;
  • 52 - Sydney Collecott, fruiterer;
  • 53 - William A Culliford, cooked meat  retailer;
  • 54 - Alfred Ernest Pinwell, newsagent;
  • 55 - Condy U'ren and Son, chemists;
  • 56 - T Doidge and Sons, butchers;
  • 57 - S Stephens Limited, bakers;
    Here was Boon's Place
    Here was North Road (West)

 

North side (from North Road (East) towards Pound Street:

Here was North  Road (East)

BELLE VUE PLACE

  • 03 - Coster's Limited, outfitters;
  • 04 - NL;
  • 05 - NL;
  • 06 - Plymouth Register Office;
  • 07 - Plymouth Register Office;
  • 08 - Mrs G E Bishop;
  • 09/11 - Prudential Assurance Company Limited, M C Avery, J H R Burrows, W J Clark and B E Holley, district managers.

Here was Albany Place

  • 71 - Miss Hilda M Haddon, house furnishers;
  • 72 - George Crosswood Valentine Richards, tailor;
  • 73 - Sweet, Sons and Davey, monumental masons;
  • 74 - Coster's Limited,. outfitters;
    Here was John Lane
  • 75 - Reed's (Plymouth) Limited, motor engineers and Ford car distributors;
  • 76 - Reed's (Plymouth) Limited, motor engineers and Ford car distributors; also Caprera Social Club;
  • 77 - Boolds, drapers; also Mrs M J Hancock;
  • 78 - Mrs E Reese trading as Anne Tudor, milliner; also Miss D Taylor trading as Dorothea, ladies' hairdresser, and LAPT International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Trade Limited;
  • 79 - H C Mudge and Sons, Builders (Plymouth) Limited; also Mrs J R Carliong-Howse.

Messrs Reed's Garage, and numbers 77 (Tudor frontage), 78, 79 and 80 Cobourg Street.
© City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery.

  • 80 - Joseph Phillips;
  • 81 - NL;
  • 82 - NL;
  • 83 - NL;
  • 84 - David Henry Walters;
  • 85 - William Arthur Pepper;
  • 86 - Thomas Reginald Virgin;
  • 87 - Ernest Furneaux;
  • 88 - Harry Storey; also Russell Phillips;
  • 89 - Mrs F M Smale; also Harold Leslie Wadey;
  • 90 - The Times General Supply Company (Plymouth) Limited, loans from £5 to £50; also Ronald S Cook;
  • 91 - NL;
  • 92 - Albert Edward Stringer;
  • 93 - Mrs E Cornelius;
  • 94 - Mr Robert C H Norgate MB ChB BAO, physician and surgeon, and a Mrs Saunders;
  • --- - Education Offices and Youth Employment Bureau, Mr J E Clark, youth employment officer.
    Here was James Street
  • Public Secondary School for Boys, Mr A C Williams MSc PhD, headmaster, and Public Secondary School for Girls, Miss R Shaw BA, headmistress.
    Here was Rowe Street and Pound Street.