30 Monk Street, Lulworth House

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30 Monk Street, Lulworth House
Offices for variety of users (see recent history)
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Offices
Offices
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Before and After Images

 

 

1979/80                                                                2015

 

About the building

Shown on a watercolour of 1783 (A/4522-0) and the 1800 map.

 

Recent history

from 10 January 2023: The Makers Crafts Gallery -artisan collective showing work of makers, artists and craftspeople from around Wales and the Borders

May 2022 : Corylus Therapies – Reiki, Crystal Therapy etc.  (NB Claire Johnson is still in this building but ? other tenants)

Currently, 2015, occupied by: ground floor right, Claire Johnson, Podiatrist. Other offices, RED Builders (Abergavenny), Taurus Taylor Associates, Management Consultants and Riga Developments Ltd, Estate Management.

1963 to at least 1980:  Occupier, Mr D Downey, owner, Mr J Hill, builder. Ground floor left residential, ground floor right, chiropodist, other floors offices.

Between 1958 to 1963, Miss Jackson chiropodist, then Miss Haines, chiropodist, then Mr Bowcher, chiropodist.

Around 1958, converted into flats & offices, including Peter Bishop, Solicitor & Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries.

 

 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

1970

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Kelly

1937

Miss Doris Carr

Teacher of Music

Kelly

1934

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Kelly

1930

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Car/Npt & Dis

1926

William Robert Carr

Teacher of Music & organist at St Mary’s Church

Kelly

1923

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Kelly

1920

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Kelly

1914

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Kelly

1910

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Kelly

1909

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Kelly

1906

Samuel Hugh Rattray Davies MRCS LRCP

Surgeon at Leven House

Kelly

1901

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Kelly

1895

George T W Harrison MBCM

Surgeon, moved to Leven House

Kelly

1891

Henry Meredith (brother of the grocer at 5 Cross Street)

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Kelly

1884

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Kelly

1879

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Thacker

1877

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Owen

1875

Joseph Bishop (Charter Mayor)

District Manager LNWR Railway

Mer & Croc

1871

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Kelly

> 1868

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1865

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1862

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Morris & Co

1858

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Slater

1850

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Pigot

1845

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Pigot

1844

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Slater

1841

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Slater

1835

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Pigot

1834-45

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Pigot

1834

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Car/Npt & Dis

1822

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Pigot

1792

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Pigot



 

 

Other information

Joseph Bishop (1895) was in office when the Severn Tunnel was under construction. He was appointed manager of the London & North Western Railway in the Abergavenny District. On the opening of the Severn Tunnel in 1888, he was appointed to supervise the through working of the North Western Company’s traffic to and from the north and west of England.

He was elected to the Board of Improvements Commissioners in 1868 (becoming chairman in 1883) and to the Urban District Council in 1894 (becoming chairman the following year), but subsequently resigned due to pressure of work.

On the creation of Abergavenny into a Borough, he was unanimously requested to accept the position of the first mayor of the borough, under the restored charter, on the 9th November, 1899, but illness prevented him from continuing from April 1990, and he died in 1902 after 23 years of service to the town. (Obituary in Hereford Chronicle)

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