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Webpage created: April 21, 2021
Webpage updated: April 21, 2021

        

ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD PLYMOUTH

SOUTHSIDE STREET

Southside Street, Plymouth, on the south side of Sutton Harbour, runs from Notte Street to the Barbican, one of the oldest roadways in the City.

All the buildings in Southside come under the category of "Prominent".  There are two licensed premises, the Queen's Arms Public House, which was destroyed during the Second World War and has been rebuilt; and the Navy Hotel.

Important businesses that have been based in Southside Street include Messrs Coates and Company (Plymouth) Limited, spirit merchants; Messrs R B Tope and Company Limited, tent and marquee makers; the Parade Printing Works Limited, printers; Messrs Yarmouth Stores Limited, seamen's outfitters; Messrs Dunstan and Company, ships chandlers; Messrs Collier and Company, wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchants; Mr Sydney C  L Millman, antique dealer; and Messrs Bracher and Sturgess Limited, mineral water manufacturers.

Numbers 53 and 54 Southside Street, on the southern side.
Note the date of founding  of Messrs Collier and Company, 1676.
The end premises were those of Mr Millman, the antique dealer.
© the late Mr Gilbert Corran.

Stepping back, we now get numbers 51 and 52 added, the first as private residence, the second
the home of the Simplex Electric Company Limited, electrical engineers in 1951
and before that, in 1939, Messrs G N Haden and Sons Limited, heating engineers.
© the late Mr Gilbert Corran.