26 High Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 26 High Street |
| Present Occupier: | Monmouthshire County Council |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: |
About the Building
Information from Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
Demolished in 1977, due to large cracks in the fabric. The area became known as “Red Square” due to the colour of the girders used to shore up the buildings.
There were originally three lock-up shops (see also nos 25 and 25A)
Recent History
In 2015 H J Edwards & Sons, butchers, applied for planning permission for a new shopfront and frontage extension. This included both Flannel and High Street frontages of the building. Permission was granted. See 2016 photo below of redesigned Flannel and High Street frontages. [Source: Monmouthshire Planning application no: DC/2015/00388]
Information from Abergavenny Local History Society Survey 1980:
From 1973 to 1977 : Kaydee (with no.25) : Milliner (Advert in Abergavenny Chronicle in 1973 advertises this same named shop as selling “curtains and covers”)
From 1952, also with Gethyn Jones on 1st floor : ladies’ hairdresser (see “Other Information” for adverts relating to this hairdresser’s premises. Appears to have been there for many years under different names but with this same owner – 1961 ‘Mavis Jones’, 1962 ‘Lareine Hairstylists’, 1971 & 72 ‘Mavis’)
In the 1940s : “Dorothy” hat shop and haberdashery; and also at some stage Lyons sweet shop.
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1937 | Gas showrooms | Kelly | |
| 1934 | Gas showrooms | Kelly | |
| 1930 | E H Davies | House Furnishers | Car/Npt & Dis |
| 1926 | E H Davies | House Furnishers | Kelly |
| 1923 | E H Davies & Co | House Furnishers (also in St John’s Lane) | Kelly |
| 1920 | E H Davies | House Furnishers | Kelly |
| 1914 | G R Edwards | Cabinet makers (?until 1921) | Kelly |
| 1910 | George R Edwards | Cabinet makers | Kelly |
| 1906 | George R Edwards | Cabinet makers | Kelly |
| 1898 | George William Shackleton | Chemist (also at 61 Frogmore Street) | Kelly |
| 1895 | George William Shackleton | Chemist | Kelly |
| 1891 | George William Shackleton | Chemist | Kelly |
| 1884 | George William Shackleton | Chemist | Kelly |
| 1879 | J P Watkins | Chemist & Druggist | Thacker |
| 1877 | J P Watkins | Chemist & Druggist | Owen |
| 1875 | J P Watkins | Chemist & Druggist | Mer & Croc |
| 1871 | J P Watkins | Chemist & Druggist | Kelly |
| 1865 | J P Watkins | Chemist & Druggist | Webster |
| 1862 | J P Watkins | Chemist & Druggist | Morris & Co |
Other Information
Adverts in Abergavenny Chronicle
1973 : ad for Kay-Dee, Curtains and covers
1971/1972 : ad for Mavis, hairdresser
1969 :ad for Lareine Hairstylists : “girl required”
July 1962 :ad for Lareine hairstylists : re-opening after fire; ads in 1964 and 1968 Lareine, proprietor Gethyn Jones
1961 : ad for Mavis Jones, hairdresser “requires young lady as improver”
1952 : ad for Gethin Jones, ladies’ hairdresser
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