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ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD DEVONPORT

RUSSELL PLACE

Russell Place was the name given to the eleven properties on the north side of Central Park Avenue between Alma Road and the Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport Cemetery entrance.  It crossed Wake Street and Holdsworth Street.

It was purely residential.  Between Wake Street and Holdsworth Street were three large properties which used to form part of the Devonport Borough Prison.  In 1914 a Mr J B J Knox lived at number 5, Mr John Hicks, plumber, at number 6, and Mr S Westlake, monumental mason at number 7.  They had one engine driver, Mr H Keen, as a neighbour (at number 3).  Holdsworth Street itself was built on the main entrance driveway to to Prison and its main central block.

Russell Place faced the huge embankment that carried North Road Plymouth Station and the main railway line to Cornwall.  But that was in Old Plymouth, the boundary between Plymouth and Devonport running along the stream down in the valley between the two.