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ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD PLYMOUTH | OLD TOWN STREET

OCCUPANTS OF OLD TOWN STREET IN 1889

This is a representation of a map of Old Town Street according to
entries in Kelly's Directory of Devonshire for June 1889.
Properties were not necessarily opposite each other except on corners with other streets.

NORTH

WEST SIDE			EAST SIDE

Here was Duke Street and Tavistock Road				Here was Clarence Street and Tavistock Place

			47	Robert Henry Dowdell, grocer
			48	Mrs Annie Crago, haberdasher
			49	Robert Cummings, oil merchant
			50	Thomas Heath, news vendor
Post Office (Money Order Office, Savings Bank), Edwin Davis, postmaster, and Mrs Elizabeth May Davis, baker	46		51	Mrs Mary Ann Hewett, butcher
Edward B Jasper, tailor	45		52	Ephraim Matthews, boot maker
William Legg, pork butcher	44		53	George Charles Thomas, fruiterer
Doherty and Company, tailors	43
Mrs Susan and Mr John Parnall, saddlers	42			Here was Park Street
William Rowe, plumber	41
Henry Holocombe Whipple, provision dealer	40		54	William Snow Spear, draper
William Browning and Sons, tailors	39		55	William Snow Spear, draper
Mrs M S Withycombe, Berlin wool warehouse	38

Here was Caxton Ope -- Bernard de Mol, livery stables and Cove and Company, printers.			56	Henry Luscombe, beer retailer and tobacconist
			57	Hugo Roth, jeweller
George Jacques and Son, chimney sweepers	37		57A	Mrs Amanda Lobb, confectioner
Thomas Henry Cross, Bedford Wine and Spirit Vaults	36		58	George Treleaven, grocer
Mrs Eliza Boggia, carver	35		59	William Vosper Roseveare, boot & shoe manufacturer
Tuckett and Sons, confectioners	34		60	Joseph Henry Easlick, draper
			61	A Pearce and Company, confectioners
Here was Saltash Street			62	Ernest Kitts junior, clothier
			63	Hender and Sons, nurserymen *n2
Here was Drake Street			64	NL
			65	Miss Harriet Ellen Trewartha, fancy draper
Three Towns' Banking Company Limited, Thomas W How, manager	32		66	Edmund Keen, draper
William Steward and Company, seedsmen, and Edwin Kelly, photographer	31		67	George Henry Goss, house decorator, and Frederick Preston, hair dresser
Henry Preston, hair dresser	30		68	John Barge, chemist
James Nicholls Taylor, draper	29		69	William Chubb, tailor
Thomas Frayn, china dealer	28		70	William Stidston, confectioner
NL*n1	27		71	Samuel Medlen, jeweller
NL*n1	26		72	NL
NL*n1	25		73	Alfred Geach, tailor

Here was Old Town Avenue				Here was Ebrington Street

Jacob Best, ironmonger	24		74	Reginald James Bazley, stationer
Jacob Best, ironmonger	23		75	John Richard Randall, white ale ripening manufacturer
Stidston and Company, drapers	22		76	James Hunt, wine, spirit and ale merchant
Stidston and Company, drapers	21		77	John Harvey Bailey, chemist
George Oliver, boot maker	20		78	NL
Alfred Maitland, furniture warehouse	19		79	Old Four Castles Public House, William Best
Alfred Maitland, furniture warehouse	18		80	Plymouth and Penzance Bank, Messrs Batten, Carne and Carne, John Carne Barwis, manager
NL	17		81	Reed Brothers and Company, wine, spirit and tea merchants
William Wood, Golden Lion Hotel	16		82	Samuel Gibbings, milliner
			83	Henry Ebenezer Prout, pianoforte dealer
Benjamin Butland, watch maker	15A		84	John Ford Selman, wine and spirit merchant
William Odam, hair dresser	15		85	James Chambers, baker
			86	Edward Fox, saw maker
B Newbery and Company, wholesale tea dealers, Snell and Holman, solicitors, James Alfred Pearce, solicitor	14		87	Mrs Emma Egerton, tobacconist
			88	NL
			89	Charles Avery junior, provision merchant
			90	William George Hodge, fruiterer
William Snow, grocer	13
Mrs Susan Duggan, boot maker	12A			Here was Week Street

Sill and Company, tailors	12		91	George Roseveare, Rose and Crown Public House
S Hawkens and Son, ironmongers	11		92	Joseph Sleeman, Temperance Hotel
Rowse and Company, ironmonger	10		93	Channens and Company, tailors

Here was East Street			Here was Treville Street

Mrs Ellen Stanbury, Chubb's Hotel	9	94	Rundle, Rogers and Brook, wholesale woollen merchants
Mrs Ellen Stanbury, Chubb's Hotel	8	95	as 94 plus Jabez Vivian Williams, chemist
		96	as 95.
Spooner and Company, general drapers	7	97	James Foot, tailor
		98	William Foale and Son, boot manufacturers
Ind, Coope and Company Limited, brewers, and Mrs Celia Chubb, dress maker	6	99	Alfred Dyer, cutler
		100	George Eyre, cabinet maker
Mrs Eliza Reynolds, watch maker	5	101	Stephenson Brothers, ironmongers
		102	John Smith, general stationer
Spooner and Company, general drapers	4	103	Old Town Chambers - Butt, Vosper and Company, woollen merchants, etc
Joseph Sidney Attwood, bookseller	3A	104	John Bond Body, auctioneer, Devon and Cornwall Chamber of Agriculture (John Bond Body, secretary), William Luscombe Munday, solicitor, William Wills Rickeard, solicitor, Montague Alton Bazeley, architect, William C Adams, commercial traveller
Byrne and Company, tobacconists	3	105	Collier and Company, wine and spirit merchants
Philip Bernstein, jeweller	2	106	Balkwill and Company, pharmaceutical chemists;
Ambrose James Bidgway, Telegraph Public House	1	107	County Co-operative Drug Store

SOUTH

NL = Addresses not listed. These were usually let on short-term tenancies and therefore not listed in street directories.

*n1 = These properties may have been demolished to make way for Old Town Avenue.

*n2 = Over the side doorway to number 63 Old Town Street was the plaque commemorating the site of Old Town Gate.

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