19 Frogmore Street

Main details

 

Address:
Present Occupier:
Present Owner:
Ground Floor:
Other Floors:
Date when first used by present occupier:

19 Frogmore Street
Nicholls Department Store

Before and After Images

 

1979/80

 2016


 

About the building

‘Norman Shaw streaky bacon effect’ (l Hurley)

This was purpose built for the Post Office in 1915. The new telephone exchange was installed on 115 May 1915 (3 positions fitted for 200 subscribers on a C B S multiple switchboard) In 1950, a manual exchange from Norwich was renovated, modified and installed with 11 positions and 820 subscribers at 55 Frogmore Street (see entry). The Post Office moved to its present site on Nevill Street in December 1968, before moving there were 20 positions and 1650 subscribers. By 1984, there were 20,562 working lines connected to the new Abergavenny Exchange in Castle street/Nevill Street.

 

Recent history

2006: Nicholls, advert. for staff, opening of coffee shop

2000, 1996: Nicholls Department Store

1993: Nicholls & Co

1991: Robert price, Builders’ merchants

1989: Robert Price DIY

1970 – 1980: Co-operative Retail Society, supermarket.

1960: Abergavenny Telephone exchange

 


 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

1970

Co-operative Retail

Supermarket

local knowledge

1937

Post Office (Main)

Kelly

1934

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1930

”     ”       ”

Car/Npt & Dis

1926

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1923

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1920

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1915

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1910

Robert Isaac Houlson

Photographer & Cycle Agent

Kelly

1909

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1906

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1901

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1895

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1891

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Kelly

1884

Kelly

1879

J G Price (died 1880)

Solicitor & Commissioners for Oaths

Thacker

1877

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ” & private residence

Owen

1875

”     ”       ” (son of below)

”     ”       ”

Mer & Croc

1871

J G Price (died 1873)

”     ”       ”

Kelly

> 1868

1865

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Webster

1862

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Morris & Co

1858

”     ”       ”

”     ”       ”

Slater

1851

Philip Price

Solicitor & farmer employing 2 men

Census

1845

Pigot

1844

”     ”

”     ”       ”

Slater

1841

Slater

1835

”     ”

”     ”       ”

Pigot

1834-45

Pigot

1834

Car/Npt & Dis

1822

Pigot

1792

Pigot



 


 

Other information

Large amount of documentary evidence on separate sheet relating to 17,18,& 19.

 

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