Updated:  11 December 2011

West side (from Bedford Street towards the junction of Tavistock Road and Duke Street):

• 1 - Ridgway's Wine & Spirit Vaults, James Ridgway, victualler;

• 2 - Philip Bernstein, jeweller;

• 3 - William Herbert Addison, tobacconist;

• 3A - Joseph S Attwood, bookseller;

• 4 - Spooner & Company, drapers;

• 5 - E Reynolds, jeweller;

• 6 - Ind, Coope & Company, brewers, H Rickard, manager, plus Miss Chubb, dress maker;

• 7 - Spooner & Company, drapers;

• (8-9) - Chubb's Hotel, Mrs Ellen Stanbury;

• Here was East Street;

• 10 - Rowse & Company, ironmongers, James Frederick Lethbridge and John Stocker Netherton, proprietors, possibly living on premises;

• 11 - Hawken & Son, ironmongers, Alfred E Hawken, proprietor;

• 12 - Sill & Company, tailors;

• 12A - Richard Duggan, boot and shoe manufacturer;

• 13 - William Snow, grocer;

• 14 - B Newberry & Company, tea merchants;

• Here was the entrance to the Old Town Mercantile Chambers;

• 14 - Snell & Holman, solicitors, and James Alfred Pearce, solicitor;

• 15 - William Odam, hairdresser, and Benjamin Butland, jeweller;

• 16 - Golden Lion Hotel, William Wood, victualler;

• 17 - E Bonser & Company, tea merchants, George Dilley, manager;

• 18-19 - Alfred Maitlamd, furnishing warehouseman;

• 20 - George Oliver, boot and shoe manufacturer;

• 21-22 - Stidston & Company, drapers, with William Charles Thomas, proprietor or manager) living on the premises;

• 23-24 - Jacob Best, plumber;

• Here was Old Town Avenue

• 28 - Thomas Frayn, glass and china dealer;

• 29 - James Nicholson Taylor, draper;

• 30 - Henry Preston, hairdresser;

• 31 - William Steward, seedsman, and Edwin Kelley, photographer;

• 32 - Three Towns Bank, Thomas Waldow How, manager;

• Here was Drake Street;

• 33 - Edward B Jasper, tailor;

• Here was Saltash Street;

• 33 - Tuckett & Sons, confectioners; Believe this should be number 34.

• 34 - NL - but see 33 above;

• 35 - Mrs Eliza Boggin, carver and gilder;

• 36 - Bedford Wine and Spirit Vaults, Thomas Henry Cross, victualler;

• 37 - Bernard De Mol, cab proprietor, and George Jacques, chimney sweep;

• 38 - Cove & Company, printers, Mrs Mary S Wittecombe, fancy wool repository;

• 39 - W Browning & Son, tailors, with William Browning, Oscar F W Browning and Edgar Browning (builder of Ebrington Street) living on the premises along with Miss Fanny Browning, ladies' school;

• 40 - Henry H Whipple, bacon factor;

• 41 - William T F Rowe, plumber;

• 42 - S & J Parnall, saddlers, with John Macklin Parnall and Mrs Susan Parnall living over;

• 43 - Edward Doherty, tailor;

• 44 - William Legg, pork butcher;

• 45 - NL;

• 46 - Post Office and Money Order Office, E Drake, postmaster, with Edwin Davis, confectioner;

• Here was Duke Street and Tavistock Road.

East side (from the junction of Tavistock Road and Clarence Street towards Whimple Street):

• 47 - Robert Henry Dowdell, grocer;

• 48 - Mrs Annie Crago, fancy repository;

• 49 - Robert Cumming, oil and colourman;

• 50 - Heath & Sons, fancy repository;

• 51 - Ephraim Mathews, boot and shoe maker;

• 52 - George Charles Thomas, fruiterer;

• 53 - NL;

• 54-55 - William S Spear, general draper;

• 56 - Henry Luscombe, beer house and tobacconist;

• 57 - George Bartlett, fancy goods dealer, and Edward Parker, confectioner;

• 58 - George Treleaven, tea dealer;

• 59 - William V Roseveare, boot and shoe manufacturer;

• 60 - Joseph Henry Easlick, ladies' outfitter;

• 61 - Helen and Clarisa Pearce, confectioners;

• 62 - Ernest Kitts, tailor;

• 63 - Hender & Sons, seedmen, with William Thomas Hender living on the premises;

• 64 - Thomas Henry Cocks, grocer;

• 65 - Miss Harriett E Trewartha, fancy depository;

• 66 - Edmund Keen, draper;

• 67 - George Henry Goss, decorator;

• 68 - John Barge, dispensing chemist;

• 69 - William Chubb, tailor;

• 70 - William Stidston, baker;

• 71 - Samuel D Medlern, jeweller;

• 72 - W Williams, tailor;

• 73 - Alfred Geach tailor;

• Here was Ebrington Street;

• 74 - Reginald James Bazley, bookseller;

• 75 - John Richard Randall, upholsterer;

• 76 - James Hunt, victualler and wine and spirit merchant;

• 77 - John H Bailey, dispensing chemist;

• 78 - George Davis, cabinet maker;

• 79 - Old Four Castles, William Best, victualler;

• 80 - Plymouth and Penzance Bank, Messrs Batten, Carne and Carne;

• 81 - Reed Brothers & Company, wine and spirit merchants;

• 82 - Samuel Gibbings, draper;

• 83 - Henry E Prout, pianoforte dealer;

• 84 - John Ford Selman, wine and spirit stores;

• 85 - James Chambers, confectioner;

• 86 - Edward Fox, tool dealer;

• 86A - John Fox, locksmith;

• 87 - Mrs Emma Egerton, tobacconist;

• 88 - NL;

• 89 - Charles Avery, bacon curer;

• 90 - William George Hodge, fruiterer;

• Here was Week Street;

• 91 - Rose and Crown, George Roseveare, victualler;

• 92 - Coffee tavern and dining rooms, with Joseph Sleeman libing on the premises;

• 93 - Channens, tailors, with manager Mr Edward Doyle living on the premises;

• Here was Treville Street

• 94-95 - Rundle, Rogers & Brook, Scotch, Manchester and woollen merchants;

• 95-96 - Jabez V Williams, dispensing chemist;

• 96 - Westlake & Havard, milliners, with Miss Emily Westlake and Miss Emily Havard living on the premises;

• 97 - James Fort, tailor;

• 98 - William Foale & Son, boot and shoe manufacturers;

• 99 - Alfred Dyer, cutler;

• 100 - George William Eyre, cabinet maker;

• 101 - Stephenson Brothers, ironmongers;

• 102 - John Smith, wholesale manufacturing stationer, account book maker, printer and lithographer;

• 103 - Butt, Vosper & Company, wholesale woollen merchants;

• Here was access to Old Town Chambers;

• 104 - William L Munday, solicitor; William W Rickeard, solicitor; W C Adams, agent for Messrs Game, Harrison & Larner, of London; John A Bond Body, auctioneer; and Montague A Bazeley, architect;

• 105 - Collier & Company, wine merchants;

• 106 - Balkwill & Company, chemists, with Frederick P Balkwill living over;

• 107 - County Co-operative Drug Company, dispensing chemist;

• Here was Whimple 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.