Plymouth, Union Street, East Stonehouse

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Union Street Plymouth and Stonehouse runs through the centre of this image

Location

Union Street, East Stonehouse, was a continuation of Edgcumbe Street from its junction with Brownlow Street to the boundary with Plymouth at the junction of Manor Street/Phoenix Street, after which it became Union Street, Plymouth, as far as Bank of England Place.

Principal buildings

The principal buildings on the north side of Union Street, East Stonehouse, in 1890 were:

the Criterion Hotel; Stonehouse Post Office; the Prince Arthur Public House; the Ebenezer Baptist Chapel; the Royal Sovereign Public House; the Grand Theatre; the Foresters' Arms Public House; and the Exmouth Hotel.

and on the south side:

the Talbot Hotel; the West India House Public House; the Jamaica House Public House; and the Princess Royal Public House.

Principal businesses

The principal businesses on the north side in 1890 were:

R M Parker & Company, tea dealers; Francis Walters, draper; Underwood & Company, grocers; Plymouth Mutual Co-operative & Industrial Society Ltd, grocers; F & E Nathan, furriers; William Dunn, photographer; Holloway & Company, dyers and cleaners; Israel Roseman, furniture dealers; William Blight, ironmonger; Snawdon & Company, cabinet makers; Cross & Morgan, army and naval clothiers; Richard Robinson Rodd, solicitor; William George Capps, jeweller; and Hill & Wakeling, photographers.

and on the south side (returning from the Borough boundary at Manor Street):

John Lewis, bookseller and agent for the Stonehouse Building Society; Ritchie Brothers, drapers; George Phillips & Son, tailors; William Brendon, provision dealer; Rundle & Edwards, ironmongers; Davey & Son, chemists; and Maurice K Dewdney, fruiterer.