Updated:  15 September 2011

South side (from Bedford Street towards Millbay Road):

• 1 - John Northcroft, dispensing chemist;

• 2 - Charles G Edwards, gun maker;

• 3 - C Polkinghorne, baker and confectioner;

• 4 - NL;

• 5 - NL;

• 6-7 - Moon & Son, pianoforte warehouse;

• 8 - NL;

• 9 - Jabez Shepheard, goldsmith;

• 10 - Thomas Luke, boot and shoe maker;

• 11 - A Ford, pastry cook and confectioner;

• 12 - W Jeffery, gun maker and fishing tackle manufacturer;

• 13 - Richard Winnicott, ironmonger;

• - - George Street Baptist Chapel;

• 14 - George Mark, chemist;

• 14½ - Miss Bellamy;

• 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; F H Westlake, stock and share broker; and A Wilson, corn factor;

• 17 - J V Luxmoore, bookseller and printer;

• 18 - Joseph Wills, grocer;

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

• 20 - James & James, printers and booksellers;

• 21 - John Stapleton, draper;

• 22 - Charles Wood & Son, auctioneers, printers, and depot of the Devon & Cornwall Photographic Stereoscopic Company;

• 23 - H Chapman, bed and mattress manufacturer;

• 24 - London & South Western Bank, A K Brittan, manager; and Hicks & Company, wine and spirit merchants;

• Harvey's Commercial and Family Hotel;

• (Here was Lockyer Street and the Royal Hotel and Theatre Royal)

North side (from Millbay Road to Bedford Street):

• 25* - R S Rowe, beer retailer;

• 26* - Richard Mathews, potato merchant;

• 27* - Mrs Taylor, confectioner;

• 28* - J Wilmot, chemist and druggist;

• 29* - Victoria Hotel, Mrs E Browne;

• 30* - Swan of Avon, John R Lugg;

• 31* - NL;

• 32* - Mrs Golding;

• 33* - Miss Kernick, lodging house;

• 34* - C Channon, cabinet maker;

• 35* - C Davy, photographer, and W & C Davey, tailors;

• 36* - Benjamin Adams, tailor;

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

• 38* - Walter Pickthall;

• 39 - Arnold Pitowsky, dentist, and R K Geldard, chemist;

• 40 - Thomas Henry Williams, perfumer;

• 41 - Page, Keen and Page, goldsmiths;

• 42 - James Land, bookseller and stationer;

• 43 - James Cave, goldsmith;

• 44 - Mrs P E Rowe, music warehouse;

• 45 - John S Bunce, hosier and outfitter;

• 46 - W T Shapter & Company, grocers;

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

• 48 - John F Madge, cabinet maker;

• 49 - J Hardy, fish and oyster depot, and Richard Saunders, perfumer, and J Hardy, wine and spirit merchant;

• 50 - Mrs Holmes, baker and confectioner, and C Cook, milliner and mantle maker;

• 51 - John Lillicrap, fur manufacturer;

• 52 - Long & Doble, milliners, etc;

• 53 - William Brendon, printer and stationer

• 54 - William Clase, pastry cook and confectioner;

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

• 56 - Payne's Commercial Hotel

• 57 - R Dunn & Company, Berlin repository;

• 58 - T Jarvis, china and glass warehouse;

• 59 - W B Triggs, The Pantheon, fancy warehouse and toy repository, and John Gaisford, photographer;

• 60 - R Moreton, china and glass warehouse;

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

• 62 - West of England and South Wales District Bank, H Cross, manager, with John Trego presumably living over;

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

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

* Formerly George Place.

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Principal Source:

"Directory of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, Stoke and Moricetown", John W Elvins, Plymouth, 1864-65.