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ROADS AND STREETS

SAINT AUBYN STREET, DEVONPORT

Updated:  15 April 2011 

 
Location of Saint Aubyn Street, Devonport

Saint Aubyn Street, Devonport, ran southwards from Fore Street to Cumberland Street.

Origin of the name, Saint Aubyn Street

The Saint 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 Saint Aubyn, of Clowance, in Cornwall.  [1]

 

St Aubyn and Chapel Streets, Devonport.

 

History of Saint Aubyn Street, Devonport

Saint 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 Saint 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 Saint 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]

St Aubyn Street 1765.

 

In April 1930 Plymouth City Council planned to make Saint 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 Saint Aubyn Street, Devonport

Photographs to follow.

 

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Occupants of Saint Aubyn Street, Devonport


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.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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