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Cadwallader butcher's shop, Lydney c 1910
Tim wrote (January 2008): " My wife Chris has been researching her Radnorshire family history and found these 2 pictures in amongst her family records"."The butcher is Charles Cadwallader, her great grandfather's brother. He kept the butchers in Church Rd, Lydney. We are not sure of the date of the picture but know he was in Lydney in 1901 and would guess a date of 1910 very approximately. In 1901 he employed a 19 year old assistant butcher called John Latham who was born in Bream. Charles Cadwallader was married to Lelia Alice nee Smith who we believe was born in Lydney. My father, who is 95, remembers it being Cadwallader the butchers and I remember the shop when it was Martins the butchers in the 1950s".
" The school picture is a copy of a postcard that was posted in August 1908 from Lydney to my wife's family in Knighton, Radnorshire. I think it is the old Church School in Church Rd, Lydney".
Thanks also to Jo Watkins who added (Feb 2008): "The Lydney and District Official Guide printed sometime in the 1950's, displayed an advertisement for E.H. Martyn, High-class Meat Purveyor, Church Road, established in 1827. The shop eventually closed in 1972.
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