50 Cross Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 50 Cross Street |
| Present Occupier: | Angel Bakery |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | Bread and other food retail |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | From 23 Nov 2020 |
About the Building
Source : Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding : The Queen’s Head (formerly the Old George Inn)
Source : Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
The building was demolished in about 1932 for road widening, but the site was partly included in the new no.51. The new building has Swedish green marble fascia panels. (There is an additional semi-legible handwritten comment “….. & ….. travertine maroc (…..) formed by volcanic hot springs. J Perkins”)
Recent History
On 1st floor: noted August 2025, opening date not known : Alina Gajewski : Alina Beauty. Address on website in Ebbw Vale
On 1st floor: from 2017 to 2024: Beauty Central UK Ltd. Closed late 2024
Closed until November 2020 when open as Angel Bakery (previously across the road in small premises in Lower Castle St)
Optic Shop from ?? to May 2019 when the site closed and Optic Shop moved to ground floor of ex Vine Tree/Grasshoppers in St John Square
With no. 51 Cross Street – shop/offices of South Wales Electricity Board from 1932 until ?1990s/early 2000s?
December 2016 : Part ground/1st floor advertised To Let by Astleys Chartered Surveyors (Swansea) : “Flexible First Floor accommodation previously trading as a hair salon” Entrance lobby on ground floor with the first floor given as net internal area of 1,014 sq.ft. Rent offers in region of £8,500pa
July 2017 : 1st floor Beauty Central UK Ltd – a plc registered at 50/51 Cross Street, incorporated April 2017,with one director – Sofia Afsar
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1932-19?? | See Recent History | ||
| 1932 | Building demolished to widen Monk Street | Kelly | |
| 1923 | H Wibberley | Corn & Agricultural Produce | Kelly |
| 1920 | Saunders & Co | Corn & Manure Merchants | Kelly |
| 1914 | Saunders & Co | Corn & Manure Merchants | Kelly |
| 1910 | Saunders & Co | Corn & Manure Merchants | Kelly |
| 1906 |
Joseph Harris |
Grocer | Kelly |
| 1901 | Joseph Harris Charles & Sons (from 1875 – 1905) |
Grocer Clothier & Shoemaker |
Kelly Museum |
| 1895 | Joseph Harris Charles & Sons |
Grocer Clothier & Shoemaker |
Kelly Museum |
| 1891 | Joseph Harris Charles & Sons |
Grocer Clothier & Shoemaker |
Kelly Museum |
| 1879 | W Charles & Sons | Clothier, outfitter & shoemaker | Thacker |
| 1877 | W Charles & Sons | Clothier, outfitter & shoemaker | Owen |
| 1875 | W Charles & Sons | Clothier, outfitter & shoemaker | Mer & Croc |
| 1865 | William Griffiths | General Draper | Webster |
| 1862 | James Bros (William & Brecon) & The Misses Trotter; Samuel Trotter, Brewery from 1842 to 1862 |
Linen & Wool Drapers & silk mercer
Maltsters |
Hopkins |
| 1851 | William Greenwood | Hatter & haberdasher, employing one woman | Census |
| 1835 | Jacob White | Chemist | Pigot |
| 1822 | Isaac Wyke | Chemist, druggist & china & glass | Pigot |
| 1733 | Owner John Jones; Publican Roger Yarnold | Old George Inn | Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| pre-1732 | Owner Robert Harries; Publican John Somersett 1732 : Owner John Jones “of Panty Goytre” |
Old George Inn | Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
Other Information
Following from Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
From agreement in Gabb Collection D.591.7.165: 1733 : John Jones of Kevencoed (sic) Llanvetherine with Roger Yarnold, plumb and glazier of Abergavenny “Messuage with stable, garden and backsides …. knows as “the Old George” situated in Old George Street, Abergavenny
D.591.17.63: 1815 : Mortgage : Morgan Walbeoff late of Llanarth, now of Llanfapley and William Hiley of Llanwenarth
……. called the Old George, afterwards the Queen’s Head with malt house, stable and additional buildings built by Roger Yarnold as amply as John Rees occupied them as tenant to Joseph Harrison. Also messuage adjacent (i.e. 51) in occupation of Thomas Powell as tenant, abutting Cross Street-Monk Street – The Town Wall – the messuage in occupation of Richard Williams now John Rees to one in occupation of Miss Lewis, Milliner, late of Thomas Richard, Timber merchant and lately conveyed by Isaac Wyke and Joseph Harrison to John Morgan of Abergavenny, Currier.”
(these would be the houses behind no.52 see plan on that sheet)
1862 D.591.3.54: John Theophilus Wilson of Ty Mawr, Llanvapley, Philip Walbeoffe, late of Ty Mawr, now of Abergavenny. “Messuage called the Old George or Queen’s Head, now in occupation of William Griffiths, draper and the Misses Trotter, malsters, as tenants thereof.
(see also no. 51 Cross Street)
Adverts in Abergavenny Chronicle:
1942/1948/1952 : ad for Wibberley & Co Ltd, selling poultry, spice, corn dealers (also at Tithe Barn)
1954 : ad for nos 50/51 South Wales Electricity Board, Electricity Showromms
1956 : ad for nos 50/51 : Electricity Showrooms
1962 : ad for South Wales Electricity Board Offices/Showrooms – Change of office accommodation, transferred from Brecon Road 6 July 1962
2000 : ad for nos 50/51 : Optic Shop Opticians
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