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ROADS AND
STREETS
BASKET STREET
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of Basket Street, Plymouth Basket
Street ran from Catherine Street to
Westwell Street, parallel with
and to the south of Bedford Street. It was very narrow and is
un-named on the map on the right.
Origin of the name, Basket Street
The origin of the
name is not known. It is usually suggested that it must be where
baskets were either manufactured or sold but there is no known
evidence to support this claim.
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History of
Basket Street, Plymouth
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Basket Street is shown on
Benjamin Donn's 1765 Plan of the Town and Citadel of Plymouth, reproduced
alongside, but was un-named [1]. On Richard Cowl's map
of Plymouth, dated 1778, it is shown as Love Street [1a]. The earliest known reference by
the name Basket Street is in 1812 [2].
In the Plan note the
curved "Island House" area, just above
St Andrew's Church.
This was later demolished to tidy up that end of
Bedford and Basket
Streets.
Plymouth's first
milk bar was opened in Basket Street on March 27th 1936. The
exact location has not been pinpointed. It was owned by Mr Reg
Hillier. The first pint of milk was drunk by
Lady Astor.
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Basket Street is the
narrow roadway running eastwards from the Pig Market towards the
conduit
at the southern end of Old Town.
©
Devon & Cornwall Record Society. |
Some Views of
Basket Street, Plymouth
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The tram in this picture is about to
enter the very narrow Basket Street, between the
Municipal Offices,
left, and Bedford Street, right. |
Plymouth Corporation trams numbers 104 and 18
passing in the
extremely narrow Basket Street.
© Burrows. |
Occupants of Basket
Street, Plymouth
Principal Sources:
[1] Donn,
Benjamin, "A Map of the County of Devon 1765", facsimile, Devon
and Cornwall Record Society and the University of Exeter,
Exeter, 1965.
[1a] Cowl,
Richard, Map of Plymouth, Plymouth & West Devon Record Office,
Plymouth, accession number 157 and PH/435/1 .
[2] "The
Picture of Plymouth", Rees and Curtis, Plymouth, 1812.
[3]
"..?..", Western Evening Herald, Plymouth, March 27th 1936.
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