14 High Street

About the building

Source : Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:

“A prickly Edwardian insertion into a dignified Georgian Street”  (quote by Louis Hurley)

There is a stained glass window in the back of the shop with the words “Good Shoes” inscribed in it in stained glass, with a flourish. A very nice piece of glass of its type

(?is this still there in the C21)

 

 

Recent history

 From Feb 21 : The Gaff, coffee shop & deli, owners Daniel Saunders & Danielle;  (own The Gaff, restaurant in courtyard Lion Street at bottom of Market St)
From Feb 05: Coffee No. 1 : small coffee chain (see “other info” section)  opened 5 Feb 2005.   Closed on lockdown in March 2020 and announced in August 2020 they would not be re-opening

Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:

Immediately prior to Coffee No.1, this was an outdoor/climbing supplies shop  (Crickhowell Adventure, still based in Crickhowell;  Abergavenny branch closed ??)

From 1982 to ?? date : Gwent Travel – “Your new Abergavenny Travel Centre”

From 1971/2 to 1982 : Paynes – dairy products, cooked meats

From 1962 to ?1971 : Shoefayre – one of the first national shoe stores

From 1954: Dunns shoe shop

 

 

 

Previous occupiers

Other information

Source : Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding  The Guildhall Inn (formerly the Three Salmons – only listed as this name in 1852 trade directory. Elisha Watkins is recorded a sa brewer and maltster who had also been running the brewery in Lion Street, formerly occupied by William Ellis since at least 1850.   An Elisha Watkins is recorded as a brewer as early as 1818 when his wife, Sarah, died.  It is not know whether this is the same man or where his premises were at that time.

By 1860 the pub was called simply the Guildhall.  By 1865, known as the Guildhall Wine and Spirits Vault.  By 1868, known as the Guildhall Hotel.  By 1920s it was again known as the Guildhall Vaults.  Closed in 1921

Information from Val Llewellyn:

I was undertaking some research on Ancestry re a 2g Grandfather, and determined that he was the Innkeeper of the Guildhall Inn as noted on the 1871 Wales Census.   His name was Thomas Denner and his wife was Eunice.   He was also a Tinplate Brazier, whilst he came from a family of shoemakers/drapers operating in Mill Street.   In 1881, he is recorded as being an Innkeeper in Lion Street (pub unknown).

 

Source : Website  – Coffee #1 started in Wood Street in Cardiff in 2001.  Now 50 branches around Wales, South West and South Coast

 

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