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PLYMOUTH ROADS AND STREETS
St AUBYN STREET, DEVONPORT
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of St Aubyn Street, Devonport
St Aubyn Street, Devonport, ran
southwards from Fore Street to Cumberland
Street.
Origin of the name, St Aubyn Street
The St Aubyn family
were the Lords of the Manor and owners of the parish of Stoke
Damerel.
They acquired the
Manor when Sir William Morice, Baronet, died in 1749. He had
no heirs so his estate passed through his sister, Catherine, to her
husband, Sir John St Aubyn, of Clowance, in Cornwall. [1]
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History of
St Aubyn Street, Devonport
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St Aubyn Street appears on Benjamin
Donn's map of 1765 but was apparently not a through route at that
time as it is shown ending at the rear of buildings in Duke Street.
It should be noted that it was so new that it had no buildings.
[2] Number 1 St Aubyn Street
was the birthplace in February 1804 of Mr Samuel Phelps, who forty
years later became the actor/manager of the Sadler's Wells Theatre
in London. [3]
On May 6th 1910 number 49 St Aubyn
Street was opened as Devonport's Labour Exchange. The manager
was Mr J Lastridge and the premises had two rooms on the ground
floor for the men and two rooms on the first floor where the women,
girls and boys were dealt with. [4]
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In April 1930 Plymouth City Council planned to
make St Aubyn Street one-way in conjunction with Chapel Street.
[5]
This was to be followed by the
installation of traffic-lights at the junction with Fore Street.
[6]
Some Views of
St Aubyn Street, Devonport
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Occupants of St Aubyn
Street, Devonport
Principal Sources:
[1] Worth,
R N,
"History of
the town and borough of Devonport, sometime Plymouth Dock",
William Brendon, Plymouth,
1870.
[2] Donn,
Benjamin, "A Map of the County of Devon 1765", facsimile, Devon
and Cornwall Record Society and the University of Exeter,
Exeter, 1965.
[3]
Manley, C M, "Plymouth Plaques", published by the author,
...., 1987.
[4]
"Devonport Labour Exchange", Western Daily Mercury, Plymouth, May 7th 1910.
[5]
Plymouth City Council minute number 2477 dated April 16th 1930.
[6]
Plymouth City Council minutes 2473 dated April 16th 1930 and 3232
dated June 11th 1930.
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