Updated:  15 September 2011

East side (from Bedford Street towards Athenaeum Street and Millbay Road):

• 1 - Joseph Allen, chemist and druggist, and Francis C Lane, solicitor on the first floor;

• 2 - C G Edwards & Son, gunsmiths, with Mr Charles Gideon Edwards and Mr William John Edwards living over;

• 3 - European Wine Company, wine merchants, with James A Cousins, hairdresser over;

• 4 - John Adams, tailor;

• 5 - Bond & Company, tea merchants;

• 6-7 - Moon & Sons, music sellers;

• 8 - John Hawke, photographer;

• 9 - Frederick E Bowden, jeweller;

• 10 - Miss Mary Ann May, ladies' outfitter, with Thomas Benjamin Luke, boot maker;

• 11 - Ernest Luke, hosier;

• 12 - William Jeffery & Son, gunsmiths, with Collier's Governess Agency and Registry Office for male and female servants, Miss C J Ford, manageress, and Mr George Edward Everett, auctioneer, probably on the first floor or above;

• 13 - Alfred Stedall, mantle warehouseman;

• - - George Street Baptist Chapel;

• 14 - Frederick Hall, carver and gilder;

• 15-16* - Turner & Phillips, pianoforte dealers, with the George Social Club, Philip Clarke, secretary, on the first floor;

• 17* - Denham and Collingham, tobacconists;

• 16* - Miss Mary A Eastlake, milliner;

• (16*) - George Street Chambers - Edward C Coffin, hairdresser, and Westlake & Son, stocks and shares brokers;

• 17* - Louis Sanson, army and navy tailor;

• 18 - Wills and Box, grocers;

• 19 - Spearman & Spearman, silk mercers;

• 20 - Bowring & Company, stationers, with Mr Edward Bowring living over;

• 21 - NL;

• 22 - NL;

• 23 - NL;

• 24 - Heath & Bulbingham, opticians;

• 25 - Adams, Clark & Lindon, drapery warehousemen;

• 26 - NL;

• 27 - Hicks & Company, wine merchants;

• Here was Hicks Lane

• 27 - Clock Tower Chambers - Executors of Colonel Hargreaves, coal owners, Mr H Foden, agent; George Henry Selleck, solicitor; H J Everitt, commercial traveller; Thomas Henry Tytherleigh, commercial traveller; and John P Rogers, commercial traveller;

• Here was Lockyer Street

• Derry's Clock Tower

• Theatre Royal, Mr R Balemain, lessee and manager;

• Here was Athenaeum Place

• The Athenaeum, Mr Charles Foster, caretaker, living in;

• Here was Millbay Road

West side (from Millbay Road towards Frankfort Lane and Bedford Street):

• 31 - Charles B Hodges, beer house;

• 32 - Henry Harkcom, grocer and fruiterer;

• 33 - John Risdon, restaurant;

• 34 - Arthur Butcher, photographer;

• 35 - Victoria Hotel, Mrs Elizabeth Ormond, victualler;

• Here was Athenaeum Lane

• 36 - Swan of Avon Public House, Charles Percival Sutton, victualler;

• 37 - Western Morning News office, Mr Edward Hawkings, manager;

• 38 - Risdon & Sons, confectioners;

• 39 - Cousins Hotel and Restaurant, Walter Murch, victualler;

• 34* - Miss Annie Barter, milliner and mantle maker;

• 35* - Baxter & Simpson, milliners, costume and mantle makers, with Miss Emma Simpson and Miss Anna M Brice living over;

• 42 - George Place Offices - Francis Barnard, grain and produce broker, and T Lyne Goode, solicitor, and Benjamin Adams & Son, tailors;

• 43 - Robert Hunwick, hairdresser;

• 44 - Bank of England Chambers - Bridgman Square, solicitor, and Bond & Pearce, solicitors;

• Here was bank of England Place

• London & South Western railway Company offices, Mr F P Wharton, agent;

• 16* - Charles Limpenny, umbrella and parasol manufacturer and fishing tackle dealer;

• 17* - Page, Keen & Page, jewellers;

• 18* - Edwin Chapple, stationer;

• 43* - Frank M Goulding, jeweller;

• 50* - Know & Company, hat and cap manufacturers;

• 45 - John Pickford, hatter and hosier;

• 46 - Medner Goodwin, dispensing chemist, with George Sampson probably on the first floor;

• 47 - Neale Edwards, outfitter;

• 48 - Augustus Ivey, sewing machine manufacturer, and M J Acford, dress maker probably on the first floor;

• 49 - William George Hodge, fruiterer, with Mrs M Nicholson, wine and spirit merchant, probably on the first floor;

• 50 - NL;

• 51 - NL;

• 52 - NL;

• 53 - NL;

• 54 - NL;

• 55 - NL;

• 56 - NL;

• 57 - Wilts & Dorset Banking Company, Mr John W Davey, manager, also John Lillicrap & Son, hatters;

• 58 - NL;

• 59 - NL;

• 60 - NL;

• 61 - NL;

• 62 - William Brendon & Son, printers;

• 63 - NL;

• 64 - NL;

• 65 - Jim Edgecumbe, jeweller, and John B Moulder, tailor;

• 66-67 - Joseph M Grose, hosier, and Alfred Rowe, hairdresser, possibly on the first floor over number 66;

• 68 - Thomas Jarvis & Son, glass and china dealer;

• 69 - John Bruford, ironmonger;

• 70 - Executors of Ralph Moreton, glass and china dealer;

• (71) - Boolds & Company, general drapers;

• 72 - National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, Egbert Athlestane New, manager;

• 73 - Cornish Bank, George Hawken, manager;

• Here was Frankfort Lane

• Here was Bedford Street.

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.

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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.