12 High Street

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12 High Street

U-explore

active,outdoor & lifestyle fashion

November 2023

Before and After Images

 

 1979/80

 2016

 

About the building

source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:  

c.1905 .  Brick frontage with terracotta details

 

Recent history

From November 2023 : U-xplore.   1st independent store for the Unify Brand Partnership, a UK distributor of active, outdoor & lifestyle fashion brands. HQ in Cwmbran.  Founder and MD – Damian Cooper, local.

From Nov 2020 to June 2023 : Magic Cottage (“Top Notch”) – a local charity organisation.  Closed this site and moved to the ex Richards Department  Store in Frogmore Street (which had been empty for ?? decades

From ?? to approx 2019 : Carphone Warehouse – still exists online but closed all its shops

source : Local History Society Survey 1980:

From??  until  ??   : Turner’s Shoe Shop at time of last survey

 

 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

19…

See “Recent History”

 

 

1937

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers (also Practical Clothing & Supply Co Ltd and E J Esdaile, Consulting Opticians (Thursdays)

Kelly

1934

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers

Kelly

1930

Cash & Co

Boot & Shoe makers (1929-1931 : also “Elite” ladies hairdressing, Miss R Bowen, prop)

Car/Npt & Dis

1926

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers

Kelly

1923

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers

Kelly

1920

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers

Kelly

1914

Cash & Co

Boot & Shoe makers

Kelly

1910

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers

Kelly

1906

Cash & Co

Boot & shoe makers

Kelly

1901

Daniel Ruther (Farmer)

Confectioner

Kelly

1891

Jasper Walters

Greengrocer

Kelly

1884

Jasper Walters

Greengrocer

Kelly

1879

Jasper Walters

Greengrocer

Thacker

1877

Jasper Walters

Greengrocer

Owen

1875

Jasper Walters

Greengrocer

Mer & Croc

1871

Jasper Walters

Greengrocer

Kelly

1865

Morgan Davies

Fishmonger & Fruiterer (in Nevill Street in 1862)

Webster

1862

Morgan Davies

Fishmonger & Fruiterer

Morris & Co

1858

Morgan Davies

Fishmonger & Fruiterer

Slater

1851

Samuel Trewin

Watchmaker

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