Plymouth, Treville Street

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Location

Treville Street ran eastwards from Old Town Street at its junction with East Street to Bilbury Street, Buckwell Street and Norley Street.

The junction with Old Town Street was known for being the busiest junction in the Town and consequently became the location of Plymouth's first set of traffic lights.

Principal buildings (from Old Town Street end)

The principal buildings on the northern side of Treville Street in 1890 were:

Treville Street Wine & Spirit Vaults; Unitarian Chapel; Society of Friends' Meeting House; and the King's Head Public House.

and on the southern side were:

the Spread Eagle Public House; the Mail Inn; and the Treville Street Board School.

Principal businesses (from Old Town Street)

The principal businesses on the northern side of Treville Street in 1890 were:

W Parkin & Son, tailor; R Risdon & Sons, bakers; Merrifield & Blight, ironmongers; A E Roseman, furniture dealer; W M Phillips & Sons, provision merchants; Evens & Bickford, drapers; Henry Banfield, saddler; Edward Charles Lear, butcher; and the Plymouth Mutual Co-operative and Industrial Society Ltd, grocers.

The principal businesses on the southern side, returning from Bilbury Street, in 1890 were:

Mrs Elizabeth Furneaux, beer house and refreshment rooms; William Henry Sambell, greengrocer; John Fox, joiner and undertaker; W & J H Cross, paper stainers; Henry Gill & Son, book makers; Hambley & Company, dyers & cleaners; Plymouth Dairy Company Ltd; F J Coles & Company, wholesale tea dealers; William Henry Maddock, printer; Loye & Company, grocers; Maitland & Son, chemists; and Messrs Rundle, Rogers & Brook, wholesale drapers.

Treville Street was destroyed during the Second World War, with only a few buildings left standing. It was obliterated during the Reconstruction of the 1940s and 1950s and the only original buildings that now remain are the King's Head Public House and what was the Treville Street Board School in what is today called Breton Side.