Work
Stationers and Booksellers
Morley Edwin Park ran a booksellers from number 2 Broad Street. Suttons describes the business as Park and Son, stationers, printers, bookbinders, booksellers, account book manufacturers, newsagents, publishers of Park's Almanac and Park's Handbook of Montgomeryshire, and dealers in musical instruments and fancy goods. The Cross.
| 1891 Census | ||||||
| 2 Broad Street | ||||||
| Name | Position in household |
Marital status |
Age | Occupation | Place of Birth | English/Welsh speaker |
| Morley Edwin Park | Head | M | 34 | Bookseller and printer | Blockley Worcester | English |
| Mary Park | Wife | M | 33 | Shop assistant | Deal Kent | English |
| Rona Bradford | Housekeeper | Wid | 55 | Housekeeper | Willingford Berks | English |
| Elizabeth Mills | Serv | S | 16 | Domestic servant | Dolfor Mont | English |
Mr Park took many pictures himself which were later sold as postcards. Park and Sons occupied the property in which the great social reformer Robert Owen had been born and, amongst the postcards that the firm produced, was a picture of the shop.
At 19 Broad Street was William P Phillips, stationer.
| 19 Broad Street | ||||||
| Name | Position in
household |
Marital status |
Age | Occupation | Place of Birth | English/Welsh
speaker |
| William P Phillips | Head | M | 38 | Printer and stationer | Mont Newtown | English |
| Mary M Phillips | Wife | M | 33 | Mont Llanllwchaiarn | English | |
| Gilbert Phillips | Son | 9 | Scholar | Mont Newtown | English | |
| Clement W Norton | Brother in law | S | 30 | Ironmonger | Mont Llanllwchaiarn | English |
| Violet Norton | Sister in law | S | 18 | Stationers assistant | Mont Llanllwchaiarn | English |
| John Davies | Visitor | S | 36 | Congregational Minister | Mont Trefethin | English |
| Jane Bumford | Serv | S | 22 | Domestic servant | Mont Kerry | English |