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ROADS AND STREETS  |  FORE STREET, DEVONPORT

OCCUPANTS OF FORE STREET, DEVONPORT, IN 1935

Updated:  25 September 2011 

South side (from Raglan Barracks to the Royal Dockyard):

  • 1A, 1B - Charles Litchfield, garage proprietor;

  • 1 - Harry J Frost, London and South Western Tavern;

  • Methodist Central Hall;

  • 2 - Welcome Sailors' and Soldiers' Home, the Reverend A G Kick MC, superintendent; also Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, Major W S G Bishop, DSC, honorary secretary;

  • 3 - W H Lamb FAI, auctioneer and house, land and estate agent; also Miss Annie Best, dentist;

  • 4 - Devon Libraries, circulating library;

  • 5 - Devonport Railway Hotel, S R Evans, manager;

  • 6 - G Widger & Sons Ltd, oil and colour merchants;

  • 7 - Columbia Club, J O Driscoll, honorary secretary;

  • 8 - Tivoli Picture House, Harry Harcourt, manager;

  • 9 - Salmon's, newsagent; and Mrs Blight;

  • 10 - City of Plymouth Gas Department's showrooms; and John Ainsworth, City Treasurer;

  • Here was Chapel Street

  • 11 - Devonport Post Office; and Customs & Excise Office, J H Payne, surveyor;

  • 12 - Reindeer Cycle Company; and the Misses Williams;

  • 13 - Plymouth Co-operative Society Ltd, laundry receiving office;

  • 14 - Boots the Chemists;

  • Here was Saint Aubyn Street

  • 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 - Plymouth Co-operative Society Ltd; with Mrs Bent at number 20;

  • 21 - The London Silversmiths Company; and Madame Gertrude, ladies' hairdresser;

  • 22, 23 - Underwood and Company Ltd, tea dealers; and Edward Joseph Lavelle, dentist;

  • Here was Lambert Street

  • 24 - National Provincial Bank Ltd, B J H Ayre, manager;

  • 25 - Thomas' Hotel, Ellery and Company Ltd;

  • 26 - J Sears & Company (TrueForm Boot Company) Ltd, boot and shoe dealers;

  • 27 - Morris & Son, radio dealers; with Mr Ronald Edmund S Morris;

  • 28 - A Richards & Sons Ltd, boot makers;

  • 29 - Curry's Cycles Company Ltd, cycle dealers;

  • 30, 31 - Lloyd's Bank Ltd, E E Nicholls, manager; with Mr Ernest Edgar Nicholls living over 31;

  • 32 - Snell & Company, tobacconists;

  • 33 - Maypole Dairy Company Ltd, provision dealers;

  • 33A - Burt, Rees and Company, warehousemen;

  • 34, 35, 36, 37 - James Clifford Tozer, house furnisher;

  • Here was Tavistock Street

  • 38 - Prince George Public House, Cecil Frost;

  • 39 - Wood &Tozer, printers;

  • 40, 41 - F W Woolworth & Company Ltd, fancy bazaar;

  • 42 - Stead & Simpson Ltd, boot makers;

  • 43 - Stumbles & Son, naval outfitters;

  • 44 - Pote & Sons Ltd, tailors;

  • 45 - Ley Harte, tobacconist;

  • 46 - South-Western Libraries, circulating library;

  • 47 - Mrs Lily Tortoishell, dining rooms;

  • 48 - William H Lamery, greengrocers; with Mrs Minns;

  • 49 - NL

  • 50 - Saccone & Speed Ltd, wine, spirit and tobacco merchants; and the Spanish Vice-Consulate, Mr E G Hathaway, vice-consul

  • 51 - NL

  • 52 - NL

  • 53 - NL

  • 54 - NL

  • 55 - NL

  • Here was Catherine Street

  • 56, 57, 58, 59 - Royal Sailors' Rest and Institute;

  • Here were the Royal Dockyard and Queen Street

North side (from the Royal Dockyard towards Granby Barracks):

  • 62 - Miss Florence Waller, confectioner;

  • 63, 64, 65 - David Sale Ltd, wholesale ironmongers and builders' merchants;

  • 66, 67 - Sydney John Lane, dining rooms;

  • 68 - NL

  • 69 - NL

  • 70 - NL

  • 71 - New London Inn, Joseph Pattison;

  • 72 - NL

  • 73 - Barclay's Bank Ltd, Francis James Pike, manager;

  • Here was King Street

  • 74 - Devonport Wine & Spirit Vaults Public House, J A Fettis;

  • 75 - NL

  • 76 - Charles Towlson, newsgent;

  • Royal Hotel, Harrison's West of England Hotels Ltd, proprietors;

  • W Coomb, ironmonger;

  • Hiorns & Miller, printers;

  • Rogers & Jewell, hairdressers;

  • 79 - Devonport Conservative and Unionist Club, A E Griffiths, secretary;

  • 80 - NL

  • 81 - L Wilson, fried fish dealer;

  • 82 - Mrs Jean Hamilton, pastry cook;

  • 83 - J Hepworth & Son Ltd, clothiers;

  • Here was Marlborough Street

  • 84, 85, 86 - James Clifford Tozer, draper and house furnisher;

  • 87 - G Coombes, optician;

  • 88 - Two Trees Inn, George Albert Ryman;

  • 89 - G C Bateman FBOA, optician;

  • 90 - Western Morning News, Western Evening Herald, Western Weekly News, Naval & Military Record, Sports Post & Football Herald, branch office; with Mr Archibald Killin;

  • 91 - Golden Lion Public House, Alan Mackenzie Bowden Fox;

  • 92 - Harry Williams, hairdresser;

  • 93 - Timothy Whites & Taylors Ltd, chemists;

  • 94 - Lipton Ltd, provision  merchants;

  • 95 - Pethick's Vaults Public House, Leonard James;

  • Here was Lambert Street

  • 96 - Montague Burton Ltd, tailors;

  • 97 - Home & Colonial Stores Ltd, grocers;

  • 98 - Ellis Goldman, naval outfitter;

  • 99 - Midland Bank Ltd, G Digges, manager;

  • 100, 101, 102 - Marks & Spencer Ltd, domestic bazaar;

  • 103 - Owen & Sons Ltd, bakers;

  • 104 - Millbay Laundry, Cleaning & Dyeing Company Ltd, receiving office;

  • 105 - Life Boat Tavern, Stanley R Bayliss;

  • Here was Saint Aubyn Ope

  • 106A - The Hippo Radiogram Company, wireless engineers;

  • 106 - Salmon & Gluckstein Ltd, tobacconists;

  • 107 - NL

  • 108 - Johnson Brothers, dyers; with William Owen Sims LDS, dental surgeon;

  • 109 - David Greig Ltd, provision merchants;

  • 110 - Singer Sewing Machine Company Ltd; with Mr Frank William Webb;

  • 111 - NL

  • 112 - NL

  • 113 - Snell & Company, tobacconists; with Foster's, hairdressers;

  • 114, 115 - Charles Frderick Hocking, pianoforte dealer;

  • 116 - Military Arms Public House, B M Lawes;

  • Here was High Street

  • Electric Theatre, The Electric Theatre (Devonport) Ltd, lessees;

  • Electric Theatre Buildings:

  • 117 - F Richardson, confectioner; and Albert Pengelly Ltd, tobacconists;

  • (118) - Harding & Sons Ltd, cooked meat dealers;

  • 119 - Norman Campbell, confectioner.

NL = Addresses not listed.  These were usually let on short-term tenancies and therefore not listed in street directories but in this case may simply have been unoccupied.


Source:

"Kelly's Post Office Directory of Plymouth and District 1935-36", Kelly's Directories Ltd, London, 1935.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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