Plymouth, Union Street

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

Location

Union Street, Plymouth, ran from Bank of England Place and Derry's Clock to the Borough boundary at the junction of Manor Street/Phoenix Street, after which it became Union Street, East Stonehouse, as far as the junction with Brownlow Street.

The line of Union Street then continued to Stonehouse Bridge as Edgcumbe Street.

Union Street, Plymouth, includes Union Terrace, Lockyer Terrace, The Octagon, and Squire Terrace on the south side and Devonshire Terrace, Flora Place, The Octagon and Sussex Place on the north side.

Principal buildings

The principal buildings on the south side of Union Street, Plymouth, in 1890 were:

the Birkhead Hotel; the Farley Hotel; the Great Western Railway Goods Depot; the Castle Hotel; the Ear and Throat Hospital; Thomas Ford & Son's brewery; and the Great Western Hotel.

and on the north side:

the Masonic Lodge Charity Meeting-room; the Plymouth School of Shorthand; the Athenæum Hotel; the Sub-Post Office; the Beaufort Hotel; the Plymouth Town Mission; the Devon & Cornwall Homeopathic Dispensary and Cottage Hospital; the Rescue Home for Fallen Women; the Salvation Army office; and the St James's Hall.

Principal businesses

The principal businesses on the south side in 1890 were:

George Oliver, bootmaker; Perkin Brothers, hosiers; Hockley & Walters, tailors; John White, grocer; George Westlake, tobacconist; Cohen & Wineberg, cabinet makers; the Three Towns Dairy; William Sweet, tailor; Alfred Liscombe, bookseller; The Billing Company, bill posters; George Drower, refreshment rooms; John Bennett, greengrocer; Thomas Henry Lidstone, bill poster; Collins & Sons, coach builders; Samuel Roach, monumental mason; Frederick Charles Burner, tobacconist*; Jonathan Crowl, butcher*; Mark Durbin, provision dealer*; and John Shepheard, bootmaker*.

The last four, marked with an asterisk, were demolished to make way for the New Palace Theatre.

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

Seymour & Company, drapers; Lake & Son, tailors; Edwin Tout & Company, grocers; the agent for the Redruth Brewery Company; the agent for H & G Simmonds' brewery; Parker & Smith, pianoforte manufacturers; P Service & Company, ironmongers; the Octagon Coffee House; John Wallington, Turkish baths; Harding & Sons, cabinet makers; Ferrari & Pizzotti, confectioners; Joseph Hepworth & Sons, clothiers; Doidge & Company, booksellers; the Western District Army & Navy Supply Stores; Emanuel A Northey, auctioneer; Asher Levy, pawnbroker; W Derry & Company, wine and spirit merchants; William B Trahair, commission agent; Hearder & Son, fishing tackle manufacturers; the Plymouth Dairy Company; and Charles Limpenny, umbrella manufacturer.