… JAMES HAMER, 1844 According to the Enumerator's Returns of the Census for 1861, James Hamer, born in Llanidloes, was a seventeen year old printer…
… JAMES HAMER, 1844 According to the Enumerator's Returns of the Census for 1861, James Hamer, born in Llanidloes, was a seventeen year old printer and compositor, living at 332 Great Oak Street. In the returns of the Census for 1871, he was living at Old Vicarage, Penygraig. He was the son of Meredith and Ann Hamer and was born in Great Oak Street, Llanidloes on January 19, 184478. His brother Edward was well known…
… Only one publication printed by Lewis Rowlands at Llanidloes is known to have survived. This is an account of the Welsh Wesleyan Assembly held…
… Only one publication printed by Lewis Rowlands at Llanidloes is known to have survived. This is an account of the Welsh Wesleyan Assembly held there in June 1901. His son, James William Rowlands, born at Llanidloes in 1896, also became a printer and served his apprenticeship with T. Owen and Sons, at the Library Printing Works at Oswestry, later purchasing the business of the late R. A. Bryan, Printer of Llanfyllin83. Lewis Rowlands died…
… He also took a keen interest in public affairs and was for some years a member of the Llanidloes Borough Council and of the…
… He also took a keen interest in public affairs and was for some years a member of the Llanidloes Borough Council and of the governors of the local County Intermediate School89. A Con- gregationalist, he served as Secretary of his local chapel where he was also a senior deacon. He also maintained friendly relationships with other local printers and on one occasion in the twenties, when the staff of the Montgomeryshire Express were on…
… in 1941 when he succeeded to the business and worked as a printer in the town until he retired in 1968. he then transferred…
… in 1941 when he succeeded to the business and worked as a printer in the town until he retired in 1968. he then transferred the business to his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Jones, who continued with the stationery side, but the printing activity ceased completely. John H. Ellis does not appear to have been as ambitious as his father and most of the output of his press were small pamphlets, mostly…
… Montgomeryshire'. In the same letterhead he lists the various items which he was able to print and these included posters, tickets,' progammes, handbills, circulars,…
… Montgomeryshire'. In the same letterhead he lists the various items which he was able to print and these included posters, tickets,' progammes, handbills, circulars, clubcards, billheads, statements, balance sheets and over-printed envelopes. In January 1933, his son Gwilym joined him as an apprentice and remained with him until he enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the Second World War. The father acquired new premises in the Trade Hall, Great Oak Street in…
… THE ENCLOSURE OF THE LLANIDLOES AND CAERSWS COMMONS IEUAN E. JONES Included within the scope of the 1816 enclosure act for the manor of…
… THE ENCLOSURE OF THE LLANIDLOES AND CAERSWS COMMONS IEUAN E. JONES Included within the scope of the 1816 enclosure act for the manor of Arwystli were the town of Llanidloes and the village of Caersws.1 Both settlements had been established by the lords of Powys in late medieval times as boroughs with a weekly market, but Caersws had already decayed by the sixteenth century, and at the time of the enclosure was just a…
… Plate I R. K. Dawson's Map of Llanidloes 1832. Original scale 4 inches to 1 mile.…
… Plate I R. K. Dawson's Map of Llanidloes 1832. Original scale 4 inches to 1 mile.…
… parliamentary borough are shown on the map by Lt. R.K. Dawson (Plate I), which accom- panied the reports of the commissioners appointed under the…
… parliamentary borough are shown on the map by Lt. R.K. Dawson (Plate I), which accom- panied the reports of the commissioners appointed under the Reform Bill of 1832, and was doubtless based on earlier original work by the Ordnance Survey. Lt. Dawson's map shows the parish church, dedicated to the seventh century Celtic saint and built on a rock outcrop overlooking a fording point of the river, and also the boundary between the two…
… market day or for carrying on a trade, whilst the petty constables present many townspeople for keeping a dunghill on the street an unsavoury…
… market day or for carrying on a trade, whilst the petty constables present many townspeople for keeping a dunghill on the street an unsavoury practice very prevalent in Llanidloes at the turn of the century. However on October 26th 1808, Mr. Thos Marsh was presented for inclosing a garden on the Upper Green, the Revd John Davies for a nursery adjoining the Vicarage, and Mr. David Davies and Mr. Cleaton for parts of gardens…
… Fig. 1 The Pre-Enclosure Pattern in Llanidloes.…
… Fig. 1 The Pre-Enclosure Pattern in Llanidloes.…
… Fig. 2 Enclosure Award Allotments in Llanidloes.…
… Fig. 2 Enclosure Award Allotments in Llanidloes.…
… of waste lands in the borough. Although roads A (later Brook Street) and G were set out in the Nant, the effects of the…
… of waste lands in the borough. Although roads A (later Brook Street) and G were set out in the Nant, the effects of the enclosure were most immediately evident in the Upper Green at the bottom of the Cwmdu brook, where several plots were allotted on either side of the turnpike (Smithfield Street) and the lower end of road B (New Street). Watering place 19 in Glynhafren Iscoed had been designated for public use…