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Webpage created: February 10, 2019
Webpage updated: April 24, 2021

        

ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD PLYMOUTH  |  WHIMPLE STREET

OCCUPANTS OF WHIMPLE STREET IN 1852

The occupants of Whimple Street in 1852 were listed as:

South side, from High Street to Saint Andrew Street.

  • 01 - Guildhall Wine and Spirit Vaults, Nicholas Tabb, wholesale and retail soda water, lemonade and ginger beer manufacturer;

  • 02 - George Thomas Wilkinson,  hatter;

  • 03 - Pearse and Son, drapers and tailors;

  • 04 - Edgcumbe and Son, coal merchants;

  • 05 - Peter Andrews Warn, ironmonger;

  • 06 - Shepheard and Son, grocers and tea dealers, and oyster salesmen, Stonehouse Pool;

  • 07 - Thomas Morrish, tea dealer;

  • 08 - Mrs S Lott, hatter;

  • 09 - Joshua B Rowe, printer and bookseller;

  • 10 - Bishop and Son, drapers;

  • --- - Post Office, Charles Markes;
    Here is Saint Andrew Street

  • --- - Saint Andrew's Church;
    Here is Bedford Street

North side, from Old Town Street to High Street.

  • 16 - Stephen Edwards, hatter;

  • 17 - Balkwill and Company, chemists and druggists;

  • 18 - John Stone, tailor and mercer;

  • 19 - H J Lavers, draper;

  • 20 - Josiah Solomon, wholesale hardware merchant and fancy repository;

  • 21 - George Browse, hatter and glover;

  • 22 - Francis Browning, hatter;

  • 23 - William Spearman, draper;

  • 24 - John Hayter, tailor and breeches maker; also Picken and Company, wine, spirit, ale and porter merchants;

  • 25 - George Tyerman, hosier and outfitter;

  • 26 - Joseph Spooner, mercer and draper;

  • 27 - Cornish and Lewin, wholesale and retail druggists, and manufacturing chemists;

  • 28 - James Sellick, printer and bookseller;

  • 29 - Joseph Joseph, jeweller and mineralogist;
    Here is Kinterbury Street

  • 30 - George Simms, printer, bookseller and stationer; and Edward Nettleton, sub-distributor of stamps; and Kennall Gunpowder Mill Company's office;

  • 31 - Naval Bank;

  • 32 - NL;

  • 33 - Croker Brothers, auctioneers;

  • 34 - William Titherley, upholsterer; and William Fey, beer retailer;

  • 35 - A Gliddon, stay maker;

  • 36 - John Aldred Cooper, draper;

  • 37 - Ann Lear, tallow chandler;
    Here is Buckwell Street

  • --- - National Provincial Bank of England;

  • 41 - Tucker and Bottomley, paper stainers;

  • --- - Guildhall and Police Station, John Spry and Samuel Cook, sergeants at mace and inspectors of weights and measures; and W Trengrove, town corporal.

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

It is interesting that in 1852 the Ancient Parish Church of Saint Andrew the Apostle was regarded as being in Whimple Street, not Bedford Street.