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ROADS AND
STREETS
SOUTHSIDE STREET
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16 February 2012
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of Southside Street
Southside Street, Plymouth, runs from
Notte Street towards the Barbican.
Origin of the name, Southside Street
It was - and still is - on the south side of a
creek off the Sutton Pool which is now beneath the Parade.
Originally it seems to have been called simply 'South syde'
(1549-50) or Southside Quay: the Widey Court Book in 1584-85 refers
to 'a trespace done at the Southside' and also an item of
four shillings 'paied for convaienge of water over the Southeside
Kaye thatt rennes from Mr Sperkes newe streate.' [1]
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Southside Street and South Gate
(Barbican) 1765,
from Benjamin Donn's "A Map of the County of Devon". |
History of
Southside Street
The Town Council sold the materials of two houses at the junction of
Southside Street and Notte Street for £20 in April 1849 so that they could
be demolished for road widening. [2]
An Act of Parliament in August 1861 authorised the purchase by the
Corporation of certain pieces of property and land in Southside Street for
road improvements [3]. The properties involved were:-
- Number 12, a dwelling house and shop owned or reputedly owned by
Mr James Thorn and occupied by Samuel Blagdon, Jane Dann, William
Fry, Jane Jenkins, James Maddock, Ann Roads, Elizabeth Skinner, and
John Spicer;
- Number 13, a stable and stores owned or reputedly owned by Ms
Sarah Stanbury and occupied by Mr Henry Callard;
- Number 14, coal and hemp stores, also owned or reputedly owned
by Ms Sarah Stanbury and occupied by Mr Thomas Pollard and Mr George
Rowe;
- Number 15, a dwelling house and shop, owned or reputedly owned
by Mr John Pardew and occupied by Mr John Welsford;
- Number 16, a dwelling house and cart house owned or reputedly
owned by Ms Mary Sole, trustee for Mr James Joll and Mr Matthew
Stranger Joll, 'or other interested parties', and occupied by
Joseph Baker, Ann Symons, Peter Wilton and Any Worn;
- Number 27, dwelling house and shop, owned or reputedly owned by
Mr William Rowland and occupied by Mr Thomas Heydon and Mr Solomon
Zeffert;
- Number 28, dwelling house and shop, owned or reputedly owned by
Mr Henry Shapcott and occupied by Mr Robert Ellis.
Numbers 46, 47, 48, 49, and 50 Albion Inn), jutted out into Southside
Street and were cut back to a straight line sometime circa 1894 (or possibly
earlier).
Southside Street contains a number of architecturally interesting
buildings. Numbers 20 to 24 all date from the Queen Anne period and
are Grade II listed. The bakery at number 38 is of Elizabethan origin
and is also Grade II listed. Of special interest are numbers 53 and
53a, which are thought to date from circa 1680 and were occupied by Messrs
Collier & Company, the Plymouth wine merchants. The premises of Messrs
Coates & Company, makers of Plymouth Gin, are Grade II* listed because they
contain some medieval traces.
Some Views of
Southside Street
Occupants of Southside Street
Sources:
[1] Worth, R N, "Calendar of
the Plymouth Municipal Records", published by the author, Plymouth,
1893. [2] "Public
Improvements - Bedford Street", Plymouth & Devonport Weekly
Journal, Plymouth, April 5th 1849.
[3] "An Act to
confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Local Government Act
(1858), relating to the Districts of Plymouth, Weston-super-Mare, Llanelly, and Llandilo; and for other Purposes in relation thereto",
Statute 24th & 25th Victoria Cap. 128, 1861.
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