Cadwallader butcher's shop, Lydney c 1910
Courtesy of: Tim Saunders. Uploaded: Jan 2008
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.
Alec Willis added (May 2010): "... My father Jack Willis worked for Mr Martyn as his butcherslaughterman until he retired in 1967. He may have started with Mr Cadwallander. The shop was always closed on Mondays for slaughtering. In the winter it was warmer in the fridge than the shop".
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