Argyll/Argyle Terrace

Now shown on maps as one with Sutherland Terrace this street dates back to the 1880s when the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were stationed in Plymouth.

In those days public schools and the services were the true training grounds for top footballers and it was an old boy of Dunheved (Launceston) College, F Howard Grose, whose family was then living in the newly-built Argyll Terrace (sometimes known as Argyle Terrace), who was a prime mover in the foundation of the Argyle Athletic Football Club (Plymouth Argyle from 1903).

Grose was an admirer of the style of play of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and it is interesting to note that Argyle’s first strip, green and black quarters, is redolent of the Regimental tartan of large green and navy check (which appears green and black) overlaid with a few thin lines of white.

The name Argyll itself derives from the Gaelic “Earraghaidheal” meaning “the boundary of the Gaels”.