Updated:  16 September 2011

South side (from the Old Guildhall at the top of High Street towards Saint Andrew's Street and Old Town Street):

• Free Public Library and News Room (Old Guildhall), William Henry Kearly Wright, chief librarian, with Rate Office and Corporation Fire Engine Station;

• Here was High Street

• 1 - John Jude, victualler, Old Guildhall Tavern;

• 2 - Edward Denham, hairdresser, and William Prin, shoe maker;

• 3 - Arthur Brett, fruiterer;

• 4 - Samuel Leach & Son, agents for Sutton & Company, carriers, with Mr George Leach living over;

• 5 - William Brendon, provision dealer;

• 6 - George French, family grocer;

• 7 - Levi Rosenbaum, furniture dealer;

• 8 - NL;

• 9 - William Birmingham, printer, with Conservative Registration Office, James Griffin, agent, and Working Men's Constitutional Union, James Griffin, secretary, and Thomas Ginn, solicitor;

• 10 - Gribble & Sons, tailors, with Mr Henry Gribble, Mr Robert E Gribble and Mr Richard Thomas Gribble living over;

• 11 - Victoria Chambers - Vivian & Sons, coal merchants, Richard Arthur Penrose, agent; Richard Arthur Penrose, shipping agent; Western Counties & South Wales Telephone Company Ltd, Thomas Scott Anderson, district superintendent; W Wade & Son, coal importers; and Thomas Henry Phippips, solicitor;

• 12 - Victoria Chambers - Western Counties Bank Ltd, Charles Polkinghorne, manager, and Frederick William Skardon, soler.

North side (from Old Town Street towards Looe Street and High Street:

• 17 - Frederick John Kerswill, boot maker;

• 18 - Emanuel Basch, jeweller;

• 19 - Edward Sabine, draper;

• 20 - W & A Gilbey, wine and spirit merchants, Frederick C Cornford, agent, with Mr Frederick Conway Cornford, agent, living over;

• 21-22 - John S Roach, boot maker;

• 23 - Henry Tucker, jeweller, and John Thomas Lowe, bill discounter;

• 24 - Picken & Company, wine and spirit merchants;

• 25 - James Dobb, glass and china dealer;

• 26 - Mrs Mary A Tyerman, hosier;

• 27 - Curgenven, Mugford & Kendall, wholesale drapers;

• 28 - NL;

• 29 - Richard Frank Davis, jeweller;

• Here was Kinterbury Street

• 30-31-32 - Naval Bank, Messrs Harris, Bulteel & Company, with Mr Edwin Thomas Bartlett, bank manager, living over 32;

• 33 - Isaiah Waterloo N Keys, printer;

• 34 - NL;

• 35 - Mrs Celia Gent, milliner;

• 36-37-38 - R & S Lear, wholesale grocers, with Mr Sidney Lear and Mr Sydenham Lear, living over;

• 39 - William henry Vyvyan, tailor;

• Here were Buckwell Street and Looe Street.

South side (from Looe Street towards the Old Guildhall at the top of High Street):

• 40 - Plymouth and South Devon Savings Bank, John A Saunders, actuary, with Mr John A Saunders living over;

• 41 - West of England Paper Staining Company Ltd, paper stainers, T H Widlake, manager.

• Here was High Street and the Old Guildhall

NL = Addresses not listed.  These were usually let on short-term tenancies and therefore not listed in street directories.

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Principal Source:

"Plymouth 1890: History and Directory", originally published by Messrs William White Ltd, Hindsight Publications, King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1989.