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ROADS AND STREETS  |  GEORGE STREET

OCCUPANTS OF GEORGE, PLYMOUTH, IN 1862

Updated:  15 September 2011 
  • 1 - John Northcroft, dispensing chemist;

  • 2 - Charles G Edwards, gun maker;

  • 3 - C Polkinghorne, baker and confectioner;

  • 4 - NL;

  • 5 - Maria Clase, fancy repository;

  • 6 - J V Fook, naval and military tailor;

  • 7 - John F Mortimer, dyer;;

  • 8 - NL;

  • 9 - Jabez Shepheard, goldsmith;

  • 10 - Thomas Luke, boot and shoe maker;

  • 11 - A Ford, pastry cook and confectioner;

  • 12 - James Cole, boot and shoe maker;

  • 13 - Richard Winnicott, ironmonger;

  • - - George Street Baptist Chapel;

  • 14 - John Honey, chemist and druggist;

  • 14½ - George Bellamy MD;

  • 15 - Charles Ellett, goldsmith and chronometer manufacturer;

  • 16 - E Burnard, laceman and draper, and Mrs Burnard, milliner;

  • (16) - George Street Chambers - Alfred Broad, wine and spirit merchant; Edward S Codd, mining agent; and A Wilson, corn factor;

  • 17 - John S Bunce, hosier, glove and outfitter;

  • 18 - Joseph Wills, grocer and tea dealer;

  • 19 - Spearman & Spearman, silk mercers and drapers;

  • 16* - Thomas Hart, photographer, and G H Lidstone, English and Foreign bookseller, publisher and printer;

  • 21* - Charles F Crewes, goldsmith;

  • 22* - Office of the Plymouth Mail newspaper, S Hayward and W Payne, proprietors;

  • 23* - Thomas Saunders, perfumer, etc;

  • 24* - Hicks and Company, importers and dealers in wine and spirits, and Samuel Jackson;

  • Harvey's Commercial and Family Hotel; and R K Geldard, chemist;

  • 16* - Thomas Henry Williams, perfumer;

  • 17* - Page, Keen and Page, goldsmiths;

  • 18* - James Land, bookseller and stationer;

  • 19 - James cave, goldsmith;

  • 20 - Mrs P E Rowe, music warehouse;

  • 21 - J Holmes, pastry cook and confectioner;

  • 22 - W T Shapter & Company, grocers;

  • 23 - Edwin Edwards, hosier, glover and outfitter;

  • 24 - John F Madge, cabinet maker;

  • 25 - J Hardy, fish and oyster depot;

  • 25½ - Jeffery Hardy, wine and spirit merchant, plus Margaret Beck, bread and biscuit baker, and C Cook, milliner and mantle maker;

  • 26 - John Lillicrap, fur manufacturer, Lethbridge & Cridland, haberdashers, and William Brendon, printer and stationer;

  • 27 - William Clase, pastry cook and confectioner;

  • 28 - George Peagram, tailor and outfitter, Frederick Peagram, photographer, and Augustus Peagram, teacher of writing;

  • 29 - C Pascoe, naval and military outfitter;

  • Payne's Commercial Hotel

  • 30 - R Dunn & Company, Berlin repository;

  • 31 - Thomas Jarvis, china and glass warehouse;

  • 32 - W B Triggs, The Pantheon, fancy warehouse and toy repository;

  • 33 - Ralph Moreton, china and glass warehouse;

  • 34 - Lee and Palmer, English and Foreign fancy warehouse, engravers, etc;

  • 35 - West of England and South Wales District Bank, with John Trego presumably living over;

  • 36 - Cornelius Charles Boolds & Company, linen drapers, silk mercers and haberdashers.

The following addresses in George Place, opposite the Theatre Royal, were shortly to be absorbed into George Street:

  • 1 - R S Rowe, beer retailer;

  • 2 - Richard Matthews, potato merchant;

  • 3 - Mrs Taylor, confectioner;

  • 4 - J Willmott, chemist and druggist;

  • 5 - Queen's Hotel, John Parker;

  • 6 - Swan of Avon, John R Lugg, and a Miss Clarke;

  • 7 - Mrs Golding;

  • 8 - Miss Kernick, lodging house;

  • 9 - Frances Treweek, lodging house;

  • 10 - Mrs Down, painter, and C Davy, photographer;

  • 11 - Benjamin Adams, tailor;

  • 12 - E R Jago, fishing tackle, umbrella, archery and cricket warehouse;

  • 13 - William Dennison.

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

* Sequence of numbering as per original source.


Principal Source:

"Directory of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, Stoke and Moricetown", John W Elvins, Plymouth, 1862.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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