[1] Previously known as Great Street,[2] it was renamed after King George III in 1769.

In 1947 it was taken over by John Barker & Co. (later acquired by House of Fraser in 1957); it was demolished in 1968 after being damaged in a fire.

It reopened as Dickins & Jones on completion of new building 1970; renamed House of Fraser 2007;[4] closed in 2020 and is now undergoing redevelopment.

The facade of the former General Post Office building at 70–72 George Street, now a retail store, incorporates the coat of arms of the former Municipal Borough of Richmond, which existed from 1890 to 1965.

29, now a Tesco Metro, was built in 1896 by the brothers Alfred and Harold Wright as a drapers shop.