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Webpage created: February 14, 2019
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ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD PLYMOUTH - A-Z INDEX

GLANVILLE STREET

Glanville Street ran from James Street eastwards towards Tavistock Road.

Documents held at the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office indicate that the land was owned by Thomas Glanville and later Richard Glanville, mercers.

The whole area was almost entirely wiped out by bombing during the Second World War.  This included the infamous Portland Square Air Raid Shelter incident.

Numbers 31 to 34 Glanville Street, August 1949.
© City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery.

The urgent needs for shops to replace those destroyed in the City Centre caused the empty site in Glanville Street and Tavistock Road to be filled with temporary Nissen Huts.  These comprised a concrete base with a corrugated-iron top.  The Huts were devised by Colonel Nissen of the Royal Engineers in 1916 for use in Europe during the Great War.  The ones erected between Halwell Place and Tavistock Road had a street frontage of 28 feet and went back 60 feet.

Number 30 Glanville Street was occupied in 1948 by Messrs C A and W Goodbody Limited, the bakers, at an annual rent of £270.  In number 31 was Messrs G Coombs and Son, opticians, who paid a rent of £287 per annum.  Messrs Curry's Limited, cycle dealers, were in number 32, £297 per annum.  Number 33 was occupied by Messrs Freeman, Hardy and Willis Limited, boot and shoe retailers, £162 per year while Messrs Troulans Limited, opticians, paid £155 per annum for number 34.  On the corner with Tavistock Road, facing the entrance to the Central Library, was Messrs Snell and Company Tobacconists (Plymouth) Limited, who paid #118 per year for their smaller shop.

Remarkably, Glanville Street still exists running through the Plymouth University Campus. 

For a list of the occupants of Glanville Street, including Glanville Place, in 1852 CLICK HERE.

For a list of the occupants of Glanville Street, including Glanville Place, in 1890 CLICK HERE.

For a list of the occupants of Glanville Street, including Glanville Place, in 1935 CLICK HERE