8 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 8 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Hey Bargain |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | shop |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | June 2025 |
About the Building
Information from Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:
Modern, c. 1930
The graveyard of St John’s Church crossed the site of no. 7 in the direction of the Town Wall. There was also a Norman ditch now beneath the building.
During the first development of Woolworths, a stone coffin was discovered. It is now in the garden of ‘The Nutshell’, Brecon Road. During the second development, the archway of the gateway into the cemetery was exposed. It was outside the old Town Wall and at right angles to it: this showed the cemetery was entered from the area of ‘Traitor’s Gate’. [Source: Mr Horsington]
There is Indian black granite at the base of the columns. [Source: J Perkin]
Recent History
From September 2024 – January 2025 : Maxi-deals.co.uk – a very cheap looking clone of similar stores eg B&M but cheaper; company closed just 5 months after opening, after going into liquidation in February 2025 (source : Abergavenny Chronicle online)
From 2009 In situ 2013 Nov – 2024: B&M Company was formed in 1978. From first store in Blackpool, now has over 700 stores. Opened in Abergavenny on the site of Woolworths at 7-8 High Street. [Source of 2013 date: Google Maps Street View Nov 2013 viewed 10/9/2025] [2009 date Source: Wiki Commons photo dated 18 July 2009 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Woolworths_premises,_Abergavenny_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1406656.jpg viewed 10/9/2025]
From 1937 – 2008 Dec 27th: F W Woolworth & Co (along with no. 7). Company closed all its UK stores in 2009 [Closure date Source: South Wales Argus online “Gwent Woolworth’s final day” https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/3871839.gwent-woolworths-final-day/ viewed 10/9/2025]
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| to 2008 | F W Woolworth (and no. 7) | Bazaar | South Wales Argus |
| 1937 | F W Woolworth (and no. 7) | Bazaar | Kelly |
| 1934 | F W Woolworth | Bazaar | Kelly |
| 1920-21 | George Bailey | Photographer | Kelly |
| 1914 | George Bailey | Photographer and picture framer | Kelly |
| 1910 | George Bailey | Photographer and picture framer | Kelly |
| 1906 | George William Young | Photographer | Kelly |
| 1862 | William Gwynne | Banker’s Clerk | Morris & Co |
| 1858 | William Gwynne | Banker’s Clerk | Slater |
| 1850 | William Gwynne | Banker’s Clerk | Pigot |
Other Information
Information from Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:
There is a doubtful reference to Eddie Madge, famous for his photographs of the town. Some still survive. His son died in the USA in 1980.
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