Updated:  15 September 2011

South side (running from Bedford Street towards King Street):

• 1-2 - Frederick John Kerswill, currier;

• 3 - Haydon, Gentle & Company, wholesale straw hat warehousemen;

• 4 - Toope & Monk, brass founders, and the office of the Eddystone Marine Insurance Company Ltd, Mr John Little, secretary; Duncan W Earle, underwriter;

• 5 - James Ireland, consulting engineer; Richard B Johns, solicitor; John Thomas Luscombe, artist; Samuel Luscombe, carver and gilder; Plymouth Mendicity Society, Mr John Edward Edmunds, officer and collector; and Plymouth Provident Dispensary;

• 6 - Rooker, Matthews, Harrison & Matthews, solicitors; William N Pearce, accountant; William Adams, solicitor; John Pearse Dobell, solicitor; Henry Tucker, solicitor; and Reginald Kelly, solicitor;

• 7 - NL;

• 8 - Equitable Life Assurance Society, USA, Balkwell/Balkwill and Rundles, district managers; M Ella Balkwell/Balkwill, type writer; and Sampson Bennett, mining agent;

• 9 - Western Daily Mercury Company Ltd, proprietors and publishers of the Western Daily Mercury and the Western Weekly Mercury;

• 10 - Edward Pillar, engraver; James Gidley, jeweller; Frederick William Dawe, chartered accountant; Sidney H Phillips, solicitor;

• 11 - Henry Blight, bicycle dealer; Arthur Weeks, solicitor; John Frederick Hawken, solicitor; and William Henry Jago, solicitor;

• 12 - Copestake, Lindsay, Crampton & Company, wholesale drapers, Mr Andrew Creighton, manager;

• 13 - Winnicott Brothers, hardware and fancy dealers also Birmingham and Sheffield warehousemen;

• 14 - Walter F Westcott, printer, who was also agent for the Societyt for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge;

• 15 - Mr George and Mrs Susannah Ryall (the brewer);

• 16 - Miss Bessie Fuge;

• 17 - NL;

• 18 - NL;

• Here was Courtenay Street

• 19 - John Moore Suett, picture dealer; and the Wesleyan and General Assurance Society, Mr Robert C S Jarman, district superintendent;

• 20 - Joseph Hore, draper;

• 21 - Philip Luscombe, confectioner;

• 22 - Samuel Lowman, boot maker;

• 23 - John Brock, watch maker;

• 24 - Edward Western, butcher;

• 22-24 - probably over or at the rear of, Perriton & Sons, timber merchants and lathe dealers;
  (It appears that this also included Mr Edward Perriton, joiner and builder, who resided in King Gardens.)

• Here was Raleigh Street

• Phillips & Bray, corn and forage merchants;

• Here was Queen's Lane and King Street.

North side (running from King Street and Cambridge Street towards Russell Street:

• Frankfort Buildings - 1 - William Henry Marshall, beer house; 2 - Benjamin Nodder, cabinet maker; 3 - Alfred Henry Hetherington, chemist; and 4 - Mark Jacobs, jeweller;

• Here was Willow Street

• 25 - Frederick Tucker, grocer;

• 26 - Richard R Monk, jeweller;

• 27 - Richard Hellings, boot maker;

• 28 - John Hoskins, china and fine art dealer;

• 29 - George Edgecombe, beer house;

• 30 - Richard H Rendle MPS, chemist, with Frederick S Hamley living over;

• 31 - John M Dillon, pawnbroker;

• 32 - Delafield & Son, boot makers, with Mr William Delafield and Mr Charles B Delafield living over;

• 33 - Richard Delafield, ironmonger;

• 34 - George Baker, beer house;

• 35 - Digory Harry, fruiterer;

• 36 - Frank Harvey, baker;

• 37 - John Cox, furniture dealer;

• 38 - Fountain Inn, Robert Anthony Ager, victualler;

• 39 - Andrew Rohrer, watch maker;

• 40 - William George Courtis, market gardener, and Samuel Davie, watch material dealer;

• Here was Arch Lane

• 41 - Frankfort Steam Brewery, George Ryall, brewer;

• 42 - William N Elliott, ironmonger;

• 43 - Misses Bessie and Janie Lee, bakers, and John W Barter, printer;

• 44 - C Kressinger & Son, jewellers, with Mr Christian Kressinger living over, and Abraham Cohen, pawnbroker;

• Here was Russell Street.

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.