Cornwall Street, unpopular opinion?

[Old Gunner]

My favourite place in Plymouth by some distance. If you’re a foodie, as I am, it offers the most amazing diversity from Asian supermarkets to Polish and West Indian restaurants. The market also hosts an amazing variety of restaurants from traditional English to Nepalese. I must confess that I also spend too much time in the Lisbon Café. The area receives a lot of flak because historically it has been a favoured spot of street drinkers, but honestly I’ve seen a lot worse.
Cornwall street, it’s a great place…give it your support 😀

 

[Pogleswoody]

My favourite place in Plymouth by some distance. If you’re a foodie, as I am, it offers the most amazing diversity from Asian supermarkets to Polish and West Indian restaurants. The market also hosts an amazing variety of restaurants from traditional English to Nepalese. I must confess that I also spend too much time in the Lisbon Café. The area receives a lot of flak because historically it has been a favoured spot of street drinkers, but honestly I’ve seen a lot worse.
Cornwall street, it’s a great place…give it your support 😀

And the original Dewdneys of course!! 🥧

 

[Keepitgreen]

And the original Dewdneys of course!! 🥧

OG want's people to visit and support the area not drive them away.

 

[Pogleswoody]

OG want's people to visit and support the area not drive them away.

Me and my mates used to 'Go town' on the bus on Saturdays.
Great craic and a pasty, 60+ years ago.
I have memories that no 'pasty prejudice' can erase Keepy!

 

[Biggs]

I must stop agreeing with everything you say, OG 😂. Totally agree, the actual buildings might not be the best but it's a nice tree lined street with loads of independent businesses... plus the market (which IS a very nice building) is genuinely fantastic for food.

 

[Old Gunner]

I must stop agreeing with everything you say, OG 😂. Totally agree, the actual buildings might not be the best but it's a nice tree lined street with loads of independent businesses... plus the market (which IS a very nice building) is genuinely fantastic for food.

I absolutely love it, probably the only genuinely multicultural area of Plymouth. My whole family spend an inordinate amount of time walking around the two big Asian supermarkets…absolute treasure troves! Couple of the smaller ones sell brilliant Middle East produce including madjoul dates! Plus a really interesting African shop opposite Cafe Lisbon.

 

[justanotherfan]

OG want's people to visit and support the area not drive them away.

So obviously not a Janner Bob, in the 50s/ we would go to Ivors after the flics and get a bag of burnt and broken pasties for a tanner.

 

[George Willis]

If Ivor could have bottled the smell that come from that place he could have made a fortune selling it to expat Janners. One of my best memories of Plymouth in the fifties is walking down Cornwall Street on a Saturday and being drawn towards Ivor's by that smell, getting my pasty and later finishing up at Home Park if I wasn't playing that day.

 

[Keepitgreen]

So obviously not a Janner Bob, in the 50s/ we would go to Ivors after the flics and get a bag of burnt and broken pasties for a tanner.

Just not a lover of their pasties.

 

[Argylegames]

I remember the smell of the pasties being overpowered by the smell of the coffee being roasted in one of the shop windows.

 

[Lousy Pint]

A Dewdney's and a visit to Peter Russell's Hot Record Store... great days!!

 

[I Was There]

So obviously not a Janner Bob, in the 50s/ we would go to Ivors after the flics and get a bag of burnt and broken pasties for a tanner.

Then on to Woolworths for a serve yourself bag of broken biscuits, if you rooted around to the bottom of the box you would find a chocolate one if you were lucky.

 

[IJN]

Just not a lover of their pasties.

But you're Welsh.

 

[Keepitgreen]

But you're Welsh.

Doesn't prevent me recognising a duff pasty.

 

[IJN]

It does mate, you're an expert on lava bread and lamb cutlets.