New George Street

When the new city centre was planned after the war it was only logical that some of the old street names should have been preserved in the redevelopment. So it is that Cornwall Street and New George Street appear on both pre- and post-war maps of central Plymouth.

The confusing thing is however that the line of the old Cornwall Street is virtually contained within the modern New George Street. Meanwhile the only similarity between New George Street and its nominal predecessor is that the one is and the other was, a principal shopping thoroughfare.

The original George Street however was laid out in 1776 as a series of residential properties. Named in honour of the then King - George III - before the war it ran from Derry's Clock to a point just outside the Evening Herald and Western Morning News shop in Armada Way.

EH 12 June 1993