Updated:  14 September 2011

South side (from Old Town Street towards George Street):

• 1 - Bedford Hotel, George Sercombe, victualler;

• 2 - M S & E Bailey, baby linen dealers;

• 3 - Henry Matthews, confectioner;

• 4 - NL;

• 5 - NL;

• 6 - Abraham Conick, tobacconist;

• 7 - Mrs Selina Gliddon, hatter;

• 9 - NL;

• 10 - NL;

• 11/12 - Henry Matthews, confectioner, Mr Charles T Matthews, confectioner, living over;

• 8 - William Henry Luke, printer;

• 18 - H J Steadman & Company, boot and shoe manufacturers;

• 13 - Star Tea Company, tea and coffee merchants, Mr F Down, manager;

• 13 - Perkin Brothers, shirt makers;

• 13 - Joseph W Ingham, hairdresser;

• 14 - Young Men's Christian Association, Mr William Henry Roberts, secretary;

• 15 - John Mitchell & Sons, carvers and gilders;

• 16 - Three Towns Dairy Company, William Coryton, proprietor;

• 16½ - Coupe and Bennett, artists;

• 17 - Frank Boney, jeweller;

• 18 - Parkhouse & Sons, house furnishers;

• 19 - Polkinghorne & Company, brewers;

• 19 - Davis, Son & Varnier, coal merchants;

• 19 - Peter Kitt, stock and share broker;

• 20 - James Hawker & Company, wine and spirit merchants;

• 21 - Searle & Sons, watchmakers;

• 22 - McBryde Brothers, outfitters;

• 23 - J J Sanderson, boot and shoe maker, Mr James Brooks, manager, living over;

• 24 - John Roach, boot and shoe maker;

• 24 - Henry Maynard, saddler;

• 25 - Globe Hotel, Charles Watts, victualler.

North side (from Russell Street towards Old Town Street):

• 26 - William James Vickery, outfitter;

• 27 - Walter Webb, portmanteau maker;

• 28 - Miss Mary A Woodman, fancy repository;

• 28 - William Alexander Rutter, stationer;

• 29-30-31 - Dingle & Company, drapers;

• 32 - Walling & Company, naval outfitters;

• 33 - John Blanchard, draper;

• 34 - James Maurice, chemist;

• 34 - James Henry Keats, architect;

• 35 - Borough Arms Coffee Tavern, Mr Robert Ford, manager, living over;

• Here was Bank Street;

• (36) - Devon & Cornwall Banking Company Ltd, John P Paige, secretary;

• 37 - Underwood & Company, tea merchants;

• 38 - John Yeo, draper;

• 39/40/41/42/43 - Popham, Radford & Company, drapers;

• Here was Market Alley;

• 44 - NL;

• 45 - James M Powell, boot and shoe manufacturer;

• 46 - Pearse & Sons, tailors, Mr Thomas George Pearse living over;

• 46 - Boot Inn, John Sercombe, victualler;

• 47/48 - Truscott and Pengelly, restaurant proprietors, Mr Rd B Truscott living over;

• Here was the entrance to a Yard;

• 49 - NL;

• 50 -William Woods & Son, pharmaceutical chemists;

• 51 - George H Sellick, bookseller;

• 52 - Bazley & Company, bookseller, Mr Robert Coralas Bazley living over;

• 53 - Arthur Brown, tailor;

• 54/55/56/57/58 - Spooner & Company, drapers;

• 57 - Henry M Reed, tobacconist.

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

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Principal Source:

"Plymouth 1890: History and Directory", originally published by Messrs William White Ltd, Hindsight Publications, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1989.