6 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 6 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Cancer Research Charity Shop |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: | 25 May 2023 |
About the Building
Information from Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980:
Backs onto the old Town Wall.
The Hotel had eight bedrooms.
Planning Applications:
DM/2023/00187 Installation of various non illuminated signage. Approved 29.03.2023 [Application for Cancer Research UK] Existing Store View, Photo 31.01.2023 The Edinburgh Woollen Mill “To Let”
DM/2021/01971 Repair, repaint and partial replacement of shop front. Approved 11.02.2022 [Application for Cancer Research UK] Photo no G80035 9.11.2021The Edinburgh Woollen Mill “To let”
DC/1999/00476 Shop Fascias Sign And Projecting Sign Approved 12.03.2002
DC/1999/00475 New Shopfront And Internal Refit Approved 12.03.2002
DC/1998/00125 Demolition Of Rear Range, Reconstructed To Form Enlarged Retail Unit With Additional Flat Over. Approved 10.11.1998
Recent History
25 May 2023 : Cancer Research, Charity Shop (moved from 2 High Street)
From ?? In situ 2017 Sept to late 2020 Edinburgh Woollen Mill – chain of shops owned by Dubai-based Philip Day, in administration along with Bon Marche, also Peacocks/Jaeger chain. (in late 2022 EWM re-opened in Cibi Walk precinct in the space previously used by Superdrug) [Source of 2017 date: Google maps Street View Sept 2017]
In 1984: Occupied by ‘Jungles’ – fancy goods and clothes. Pinches then moved, with their bakery, to 16 Cross Street.
At time of last Local History Survey in 1980 : Occupied by A G Pinch & Sons Ltd, a bakery, rented from 1961.
Occupied from 1937 to 1961 by Alec Sayce (*The Sayces were still the freeholders in 1984 : Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding)
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1937 – 1961 | Alec Sayce | Victoria Cafe & Hotel | Kelly / Abergavenny Pubs Frank Olding |
| 1930 | Prop: F Woodhead (from 1923-1931) | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | Prop: F Woodhead | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1923 | Prop: F Woodhead | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1920 | Prop: F Woodhead | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1914 | Prop: Charles H Sayce | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1910 | Prop: Charles H Sayce | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1906 | Prop: Charles H Sayce | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1901 | Prop: Charles H Sayce | Victoria Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms | Kelly |
| 1891 | Joseph Clare & Son | Watchmakers, jewellers, fishing tackle and photographic studio | Kelly |
| 1884 | Joseph Clare & Son | Watchmakers, jewellers, fishing tackle and photographic studio | Kelly |
| 1879 | Joseph Clare & Son |
Saddler |
Thacker |
| 1877 | Joseph Clare & Son |
Saddler |
Owen |
| 1875 | Joseph Clare & Son |
Saddler |
Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | Joseph Clare & Son | Saddler | Kelly |
| 1865 | Joseph Clare & Son | Saddler | Webster |
| 1858 | Timothy Wallington | Saddler | Slater |
| 1850 | Timothy Wallington | Saddler | Pigot |
| 1844 | Timothy Wallington | Saddler | Slater |
| 1836 | Timothy Wallington | Saddler | Pigot |
| 1822 | Timothy Wallington | Saddler | Pigot & Thacker |
Other Information
Edinburgh Woollen Mill founded by Drew Stevenson in 1946 as the Langholm Dyeing and Finishing Company. Following a chequered history, the company was taken over by a management buy-in in the early 2000s, and today is wholly owned by the Day family. [Source : ewm.co.uk]
Information from Abergavenny Local History Survey 1980
F Woodhead rented the building from Sayce’s.
Timothy Wallington was also at 12 Frogmore Street 1858 – 1865. Mrs Sarah Wallington 12 Frogmore Street 1865 – 1871.
In 1914: was also occupied by D F Boodle, artificial tooth maker
In 1891: was also occupied by John J Cox, clothier
Joseph Clare & Son moved to no. 6 from no. 21 in 1891.
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