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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