Shoes and Saddlery

1891

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Broad Street, Newtown: Shoes and Saddlery

7-8 Broad Street, Newtown,
from a larger photograph
Powysland Museum and
Montgomery Canal Centre

Babys' shoes, 19th c.
Radnorshire Museum

37-39 Broad Street,
from a larger photograph
Powysland Museum and
Montgomery Canal Centre

As most transport was by means of the horse in 1891, there was still room for a saddler in the main shopping street of Newtown. Joseph Lloyd advertised in Sutton's Directory as Lloyd and Son, as he had taken over the saddlery business of his father Richard.

1891 Census
7 Broad Street, Newtown
Name	Position in household	Marital status	Age	Occupation	Place of Birth	English/Welsh speaker
Joseph Lloyd	Head	M	43	Saddler	Newtown Mont	English
Mary A Lloyd	Wife	M	38		Llandinam Mont	English
Eliza A J Lloyd	Dau		15		Newtown Mont	English
Charlotte O Lloyd	Dau		12	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
Florina A Lloyd	Dau		2	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
John Lewis	Border	Single	20	Draper's assistant	Bettws Mont	English
Martha Swain	Serv	S	14	Domestic servant	Llandyssil Mont	English

Next door was a boot shop. However, although it was listed in Sutton's as R & J Dicks, Bootmakers, the shop was being managed by Alexander Wallace who lived there with his wife and six children. Alexander had listed himself as a shopman in shoe shop (shoemaker) in the 1881 census but had become a manager by 1891.

8 Broad Street, Newtown
Name	Position in household	Marital status	Age	Occupation	Place of Birth	English/Welsh speaker
Alexander Wallace	Head	M	42	Manager	Scotland	English
Janet Wallace	Wife	M	39		Scotland	English
Samuel Wallace	Son		13	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
Jenny R Wallace	Dau		11	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
Margaret Wallace	Dau		10	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
James Wallace	Son		7	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
Agnes Wallace	Dau		6	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English
John Wallace	Son		2	Scholar	Newtown Mont	English

The other shoe shop in town was across Broad Street at number 39. This had been a shoe shop for some considerable years. The previous proprietor, Richard Morgan, had recently died leaving his widow to run the shop. Like Alexander Wallace, she originally came from Scotland, although her husband was a local man, and she was a 'dealer' in shoes, rather than a manufacturer.

39 Broad Street, Newtown
Name	Position in household	Marital status	Age	Occupation	Place of Birth	English/Welsh speaker
Mary Morgan	Head	Wid	36	Shoe dealer	Scotland	English
Annie Worthington	Serv	S	23	Shop assistant	Leicester	English
Mary Jones	Serv	S	20	Domestic servant	Mont Cemmaes	English

Shearers, Rhydoldog Estate, showing hobnailed boots
Radnorshire Museum

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