Updated:  15 September 2011

South side (from Bedford Street to Athenaeum Street and Millbay Road):

• 1 - Salmon & Gluckstein, tobacconists;

• 1a - Myladye, ladies' outfitters;

• 2 - A L Salisbury Ltd, leather goods dealers;

• 3 - James B Cousins, hairdresser, and Bernard J Crocker, gents' outfitters;

• 4 - Plymouth Drug Company, chemists;

• 5 - Kendall & Sons Ltd, umbrella manufactuers;

• 6-7-8 - Moon & Sons (Pianos) Ltd, music warehouse;

• 9 - Imperial Fur House, furriers;

• 10 - J H Dean, tailors;

• 11-12 - H Samuel Ltd, jewellers;

• 13 - H A Leon & Company Ltd, gowns;

• George Street Baptist Chapel and Sunday Schools;

• Church Lodge - Charles Stanley Richards;

• 14 - London Rubber Company, waterproofers, with Sydney Herbert Perriton, hairdresser; Charles Brock, commission agent; and Whitford Hawke & Partners, estate agents above;

• 15-16 - Willson's Ltd, gowns, with the Rendezvous Beauty Parlour, ladies' hairdresser, above;

• 17 - H J Snell & Company, tobacconists and cigar importers, with William Owen Sims LDS, dental surgeon, above;

• 16* - Ellery & Company Ltd, wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchants, with Ernest Brock, commission agent and Westlake & Company, stock brokers, above;

• 17* - Edgar Green, working jeweller, with Edward C Coffin, hairdresser; Thomas Cook & Son Ltd, tourist agents; and Thomas Cook & Son (Bankers) Ltd;

• 18 - Boot's the Chemists;

• 19 - Montagu Burton Ltd, tailors, with the Devon County Billiard Club, Harold Williams, secretary, over;

• 20 - Hope Brothers Ltd, clothiers;

• 21 - NL;

• 22 - NL;

• 23 - NL;

• 24 - Heath & Stoneman Ltd, consultiung and dispensing opticians and photographic dealers;

• 25-26 - Plymouth & Stonehouse Gas Light & Coke Company Ltd, George Howe Bolton, secretary and Robert J H Clark, engineer;

• 27 - Woodhill & Comapny, furriers, with Plymouth Dental Laboratory, Mr H B Bonning proprietor, dental mechanics, and William henry Foster, engraver, over;

• 27a - W H Wingate FBOA, consulting optician, sight-tersting and dispensing;

• 27b - Johnston, Sons and Shobrook Ltd, auctioneers, valuers and estate agents;

• 28 - Lloyd's Bank Ltd, William E Lawrey, manager;

• Lloyd's Bank Chambers - Elliott, Ellis & Bowden, surveyors, auctioneers, valuers and estate agents; and the Yorkshire Insurance Company Ltd;

• Here was Lockyer Street

• Assembly Rooms, Royal Hotel;

• Theatre Royal, owned by Plymouth Properiteis Ltd;

• Here was Athenaeum Place

• The Athenaeum, Plymouth Institution & Devon & Cornwall Natural History Society, F S Blight, honorary secretary;

• Here was Athenaeum Street.

North side (from Athenaeum Street and Millbay Road to Frankfort Lane):

• 31 - Sydney James Perkin, beer retailer;

• 32 - C Togni, confectioner;

• 33 - Frederick J Risdon, confectioner, with Miss E M Mather living over;

• 34 - George Reynolds, tobacconist, with Frank L Archer, outfitter;

• 35 - Victoria Hotel, Ernest Redfern, victualler;

• Here was Athenaeum Arcade

• 36 - H Andrew & Company Ltd, motor car agents (head office and showrooms);

• 37 - Ann Mary, milliners, with J Gasson FBOA FIO, optician;

• 38 - Genoni's Swiss Restaurant, (open Sundays);

• 39 - Cousins Hotel, Samuel Roseman, proprietor;

• 40 - James Hawker &* Company Ltd, wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchants;

• 41 - W G Heath & Company, electrical engineers;

• 42 - Sansom & Bromley, uniform and mufti tailors and outfitters, with A S Hobbs and J J Quick, ladies' hairdressers; Arthur S Hobbs, chiropodist; Mr R Hansford Worth MInstCE, civil engineer; and Mr Ernest Edwin Read, over;

• 43 - Mrs Mary Limpenny, umbrella maker, with Horton's, hairdressers, and Claude E Allen, printer;

• 44* -  Arthur John Gale;

• Here was Bank of England Place and Union Street

• 16* - John Bright (outfitters) Ltd, tailors, with Car and General Insurance Corporation Ltd, Mr Leslie M Tyrrell, branch manager, with Veterinary Insurance Company Ltd, Mr Leslie M Tyrrell, branch manager, and Car Services Ltd, financial agents;

• 16a* - Mr C A Ramsay and Mr Harry G Crompton;

• 17* - Page, Keen & Page Ltd, watch makers;

• 18* - William Walter Wakeling, umbrella maker;

• 43* - The American Shoe Company, specialists in fashion shoes;

• 50* - Fuller's Ltd, confectioner, with Cryséde Ltd, gowns, over;

• 45* - C A & W Goodbody, café;

• 46 - H E Randall Ltd, boot and shoe makers and dealers;

• 47 - Edwin Edwards, hatter and shirt maker, with the British Oak Insurance Company Ltd, Captain A C P Smith, branch  manager; and Athelstan Carter, stockbroker, over;

• 48 - Lawley Ltd, china dealers;

• 49 - G & H Pearson Brothers Ltd, waterproof clothing manufacturers, with Nicholson's (Plymouth) Ltd, wine and spirit merchants, over;

• 50* - Barber's, tailors;

• 51 to 62 - NL;

• 63* - Gieve's Ltd, naval and civil tailors and outfitters;

• 64 - J Sears & Company (True Form Boot Company) Ltd, boot makers, with Mr Robert Gidney over;

• 65 - W Barratt & Company Ltd, boot dealers, with The Midland Stamp Company Ltd, postage stamp dealers, and Mr William Nichols, over;

• 66 - Webb & Son (Plymouth) Ltd, trunk manufacturers, with Albert B Hobbs, dentist, over;

• 67 - H M Dommett & Company, house furnishers, with Walter Scott (Men's Wear) Ltd, outfitters, over;

• 68 - W H Smith & Son Ltd, booksellers;

• 69 - Bruford & Hardy Ltd, ironmongers, cutlers, and silversmiths;

• 70 - Harris & Sons, decorators, shop fitters, furnishers, picture delealersand restorers, picture frame makers, artists' colourmen, stationers and china and glass dealers;

• 71 - Saxone Shoe Company Ltd;

• 72 - Leigh Varcoe & Company, insurance brokers, with John R Randall, estate agent; the Employers' Mutual Insurance Association Ltd, M L Harvey and N J Leigh, managers; and Bowden & Sons Ltd, watch makers

• 73 - Coster's Ltd, drapers;

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.  However, given the strange numbering employed in George Street these numbers may not have existed.

* Sequence of numbering as per original source.

If you find it difficult to believe that the street numbering in George Street, Plymouth, was so bad then take heed of this article from "The Talk of the City", published in the Western Evening Herald in 1935.

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Principal Source:

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